GNMIDI MIDI TOOLS for Windows. (c) 1997 Günter Nagler

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1 MIDI TOOLS for Windows

2 A software for MIDI friends by Günter Nagler MIDI is the language that most electronic musical instruments, computers and recording studios have in common. A MIDI file tells the playing device all the steps that the synthesizer must do to produce a song instead of only sound. gives you the opportunity to join in the fun that musicians have with the use of MIDI. Don't be afraid that working with MIDI is too difficult or requires too much knowledge of music, techniques or computers. With it's easy and fun to work with MIDI files. is very efficient. It is small enough to put on a floppy disk and take with you anywhere. It will even run right from the disk. No installation necessary!

3 - MIDI tools for Windows All rights reserved. No parts of this work may be reproduced in any form or by any means - graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or information storage and retrieval systems - without the written permission of the publisher. Products that are referred to in this document may be either trademarks and/or registered trademarks of the respective owners. The publisher and the author make no claim to these trademarks. While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this document, the publisher and the author assume no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of information contained in this document or from the use of programs and source code that may accompany it. In no event shall the publisher and the author be liable for any loss of profit or any other commercial damage caused or alleged to have been caused directly or indirectly by this document. Printed: Jänner 2018 in Austria, Graz Special thanks to: Programming Günter Nagler, Austria All the people who helped that became a successful software idea, the users who sent new ideas and helped to test them. All the professional and amateur musicians who sent me important input about what musicians really need. All the users who talk about and recommended it to new users. Genea, who spent valuable time in proof-reading this document. Microsoft for standardizing MIDI drivers and making it possible that users can use MIDI on different systems. KORG who developed the wonderful i-series MIDI keyboards that I am using. YAMAHA who developed the fascinating CVP-305 digital piano that I am using. Share-It for their superb online order services.

4 I Table of Contents Foreword 0 Part I Introducing 5 1 Why? About the... project 5 3 End user license... agreement 6 4 Installation License How to register How to print this... help file 8 8.INI Notepad Editor support... 9 Part II user interface 9 1 The principles... of using 9 2 Information displayed... in a MIDI document window 10 3 Karaoke display Menu File menu Analyse menu Convert menu Modify menu Controller... operations submenu 23 Note operations... submenu 24 Sound operations... submenu 25 Tempo operations... submenu 25 Volume operations... submenu 26 Player menu Reset midi... device submenu 28 Settings menu Window menu Help menu Part III operations 32 1 Batch operations... for favourite operations 32 2 Open a MIDI... file 34 3 Close a MIDI... file 36 4 Play a MIDI file Stop the MIDI... song player 37 6 Save a MIDI file... 37

5 Contents II 7 Change MIDI... format 37 8 Check and repair... a MIDI file 38 9 Convert RIFF... MIDI (.rmi) to standard MIDI file (.mid) Fade a MIDI song Make a MIDI... medley Play MIDI with... favorite MIDI player Change Volume... (or Note velocities) Copy part from... a MIDI file Generate control... events in rhythmic or random way Show short or... verbose track information Karaoke to MIDI... with lyrics Convert MIDI... with lyrics to Karaoke MIDI Trim mute song... ending Calculate maximum... note polyphony Reset GM, GM2,... GS, XG, INIT Reset device... (SOS) Prepare MIDI... song before playing Sort tracks in... a format 1 MIDI file Select MIDI output... device for internal MIDI player Compress MIDI Humanize MIDI Transpose MIDI Map Channel... Numbers Guess Chords Split Drums Split Programs Replace Notes Change Resolution Set copyright... information Edit track titles Calculate tempo... (BPM) Stretch notes... duration Mute voices Generate setup... measure Show or add... secret copyright Set tempo (bpm... and percentually) Check all MIDI... files Create new MIDI... file Browse MIDI... folder 65

6 III 46 Reverse MIDI... song Check midi natural... instrument note ranges Remove hanging... notes Delete midi tracks MIDI to ASCII... Text ASCII Text to... MIDI ASCII Text syntax Guess song... key and optionally set MIDI song key Show original... MIDI song keys MIDI time calculator... (calculate position, time, tact, tempo within a song) Player status... information Insert Marker Find text in MIDI... and MP3 files Set programs... and banks (with sound check) Prepare MIDI... file for PianoDisc Cripple notes Song description Adjust volume... to common level before playing midi song (optional) Set all MIDI to... common volume level Entertainment... player Delete duplicate... notes Print Lyrics Pause/Continue... MIDI Player commands Backward/Forward... MIDI Player commands Mute Melody Select a Midi... Input MIDI Recorder Split notes into... lower and upper half at splitpoint (left and right hand) Edit Text Tip of the day MIDI melody... to mobile phone ring tones (RTTTL) RTTTL to MIDI... song MIDI to parsons... code conversion MIDI settings... landscape view Count-In 1,2,3, Remove Count-in... notes Insert empty... measure Initialize GM/GS/XG/GM2... mode Optional MIDI... compression during save operation 99

7 Contents IV 85 Keystrokes for... Nokia 3310/3330 mobile phone tone editor MIDI command... filter Seek long pauses... in song Seek parts with... notes Show tempo... changes Show text positions Quantize pedal... controllers to on/off Set MIDI tempo... without changing timing Modify controller... values by expressions Generate tempo... slide Sysex Transfer Karaoke Editor Synchronization... Editor Seek long notes... in song Fit improvisation... to a score sheet Monophon... channels Quantise notes Compare MIDI... files Compare all... MIDI files Rename MIDI... files by song titles Rename track... names to their MIDI filename Clone channel Clean MIDI... song Remove chords Convert MIDI... to (.csv) speadsheet Convert (.csv)... spreadsheet to MIDI file Map notes to... scale Use a Play list Chord editor Prepare Casio... Lightning Edit theme open demo... music file Future operations Index 141

8 5 1 Introducing 1.1 Why? Software offers a huge list of operations that help preparing MIDI files for musicians. It is easier to use than a sequencer and is an ideal supplement to MIDI sequencer software. Many important operations that are difficult to do with a MIDI sequencer can be done within with few button clicks. features are useful in following areas: Karaoke Playing and Editing Lyrics synchronization Lyrics conversion for many keyboard displays Sysex Dump MIDI Archive MIDI file modification Entertainment Mobile phone melodies MIDI Recording MIDI Playing quick MIDI file information display Chord analysation Format conversions Check and Repair Compression Copy parts from a MIDI file View into MIDI file internals contains also a few features for mp3 song files, but is mainly for MIDI users: enter mp3 song text synchronize mp3 song text line by line (Karaoke) play mp3 song with karaoke text find mp3 song files in archive by words remember additional information to mp3 song files in archive (rating, comment,...) entertainment player plays mp3 song files in random order considering files that contains certain words, rating, playing frequency 1.2 About the project Project author: Günter Nagler, Austria From I wrote many command line MIDI utilities for DOS. This program should offers many operations of these utilities and more. Many people are not familiar with computers using DOS or UNIX command lines, so - for Windows - is much easier to use. The project started with some popular utilities and I may add new ones from time to time. The project has become a full featured program and is in a very stable state. The software is available in English or German. is currently tested under following environments: Windows 7, Windows 8 might work with Windows systems Win95, WinME, Win98, WinNT4, Win2000, Vista,

9 Introducing 6 Windows XP but this is not listed in supported systems because we currently do not test on these environments. We can not give any guarantees for these systems that all functions of a version will work for these systems. Test the demo carefully on your system to be sure that it works well. Please let us know your results if you are using one of these operating systems. 1.3 End user license agreement (c) 1997 was created by Günter Nagler. 3.0 and later is not free, it is commercial. You may try it free for 14 days to test it and then you must purchase a license if you want to use it further or delete the program. Prices may change. Download newest demo version for current price. Purchasing a license is only obtaining the permission to use software. It is not allowed to resell or share a license, only the registered owner listed in the license file has permission to use. The end user license agreement that is viewed at start of the program and can be downloaded from product page. Demo version of the software asks you at program start if you are willing to accept our software usage conditions and copyright rules. You can quit immediately and delete the software from your computer if you don't agree. If you enter the software you agree to the conditions. 1.4 Installation This program runs under Microsoft Windows versions Windows 8, Windows 7. It does not run under Windows 3.x and older. It is currently not tested with other Windows versions like WinME, Win95, Win98, Win-NT, Win2000, Win XP, Vista, Windows 10 therefore we cannot guarantee that it works with them. If you need to use this software with those unsupported systems please try demo self and register with knowledge that we maybe cannot fix system depending software problems. You may try to use with these systems self without guarantee. if you download MSI file for installation the program will be installed into program files (x86) and create a shortcut on desktop and app menu. Deinstallation is done using Windows deinstall program (search for deinstall in Windows run) and click the line with the wanted program name. The gnmidi.ini file in your documents folder must be deleted manually. If you download ZIP file for installation you need to extract the content of the ZIP archive into a new empty folder (e.g. C:\). Create a shortcut on the desktop to the program gnmidi.exe (green symbol) with Explorer. Alternatively start the program with Windows Explorer in the folder. Deinstallation is done by deleting the files in your folder and the gnmidi.ini file in your documents folder. Install your personal license as explained in the mail where it was sent. Ask the developer if there are difficulties. After correct installation of license the program should display your name at bottom side of the program (registered by...). The personal license file *.gnlic might be in application folder C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\GN MIDI Solutions\ or in program folder.

10 7 At first program start creates a new readable file gnmidi.ini in your personal My Documents folder, which remembers your recent program settings. 1.5 License 3.0 and later is not Freeware it is commercial software (that you can try as demo before buying). A purchased license is valid for 3 version which was released during your order and 3 update versions released within 2 years. Installed license will turn the demo into full version. The demo limitations will be away. The end user license agreement must be agreed at first program start. The name of the user who has permission to use the full software will be displayed at bottom side of the program (registered by...). Software production takes much time, so please register after testing (14 days) if you like it. The concept makes it safe for you, you don't purchase something that you haven't tried. Till 14 days after your order the order may be cancelled. A CDROM is not included in the price of software. It can be ordered separately. Important: 2 license files are not accepted by 3. Please check if there is an upgrade possibility. 1.6 How to register A registration is license contract between user and software author that permits the user to use the software without demo limitations. See End user license agreement that the user must agree before using the software. is available in English and German language. Order a software license online: Program and updates can be downloaded from (Canada) (Austria)

11 Introducing How to print this help file Best printing of these help pages can be done using the PDF version of this help. You can download this document from In order to view PDF files, the free Acrobat Reader from Adobe is required. Delivery does not contain a printed manual. 1.8.INI gnmidi.ini is a text file in your My Documents folder which stores your personal program settings. This file will be created automatically at first program start. Most settings are done automatically by program. Some very rarely used settings can only be modified by editing the.ini file with Notepad text editor, this will be mentioned by the relating documentation to an operation. Most settings can be found in section "Settings" after the line: [Settings] MidiMode=1 RecordDevice=0 MidiFollowLyrics=1 MidiAdjustVolume=0 MidiCommonVolume= MidiAllCommonVolume= MidiAutoCompression=0 TextFontAttrib= TextFontName=Perpetua KaraokeFontAttrib= KaraokeFontName=Courier New Notepad Editor will write some results in text files and display them with the Windows text editor Notepad. This editor can not handle very big files. Alternatives There exist text editors which are compatible with Notepad and have more facilities than Notepad and less limitations e.g: Notepad2 (Freeware), Notepad++ In internet you could find descriptions how to replace Windows Notepad.exe completely against some other trustable software..ini setting to use an other text editor than Notepad: [Settings] TextEditor=c:\utils\notepad2.exe

12 support homepage (Canada) (Austria) the homepage contains newest demo. Within 2 years registered users may update to a newer version without costs: Download newest demo in chosen language and install it into your current folder or into a new folder. Questions about info@gnmidi.com phone: there is no phone support available. Bug reports, comments, suggestions, spelling errors in software and help manual are welcome. Support for registered users support@gnmidi.com Report abuses abuse@gnmidi.com 2 user interface 2.1 The principles of using Operations consist of many operations. Some can be applied any time and most others must be applied to an open MIDI document. The operations can be found in the menus and some important have icons on a toolbar. The menu or toolbar item is grayed if the operation is currently not available. Use File Open operation to load a MIDI file. Document windows Most operations don't modify your original files. Every time when you apply an operation to a MIDI file document then a new temporary file will be created in a temporary folder and opened in a new window. It is necessary to save the file after testing the result (by playing the file). Click on a window caption to activate the document, the window will get into front. You can close unnecessary windows of unused intermediate results when a work is done. Drag and Drop can open MIDI files by drag and drop method. Open Windows Explorer and and select MIDI files in Windows Explorer and drag them with pressed left mouse button into the application and drop them (release left mouse button). Menus The menu at top of application offers to start available commands. Use the underlined menu shortcut keys for quicker use of a command. Dialogs Many operations require parameters that will be offered in a dialog and they must be entered so that

13 user interface 10 will do exactly what you want. When a dialog appears you should look at the current parameter settings and modify them if necessary. Use the mouse buttons to click on the dialog controls and use keyboard to enter text into edit boxes. At end you can accept the parameters and start the operation with OK button or you can abort the dialog and operation with Cancel button. Tool bars Toolbars contain many symbols that can be clicked with left mouse button. Move the mouse over a symbol to display a tool tip that tells what it does and show a description in status bar. Toolbars can be moved to other positions. Status bar Status bar shows important messages on the left side and tells your name if you are using the registered software. Hot keys Some important operations can be started with a key combination. The menu entry shows the key code near the operation name. For key combinations you need to press more keys at same time (usually Alt or Ctrl or Shift key together with a letter key). F1 Space Ctrl-Space Ctrl-A Ctrl-I Ctrl-K Ctrl-Z Ctrl-R Alt-X Ctrl-O Ctrl-S Ctrl-E Alt-F4 Ctrl-F4 Help Play or stop playing Play with standard MIDI player Start entertainment player Player status information Karaoke editor Synchronizing editor MIDI Recorder Sysex transfer Open MIDI file Save MIDI file Edit text Exit Close MIDI file Hint: Ctrl key might be Strg key on your keyboard Batch conversion Some important operations can be applied to a folder full of MIDI files. The operations are listed in File menu under Batch conversion. The results are stored in a destination folder using same file names. Backup original MIDI files Many operations are not reversible. Keep backup of original MIDI files before you are overwriting your original files! 2.2 Information displayed in a MIDI document window The upper part of a MIDI document window contains following information if a standard MIDI file or a MP3 file is loaded:

14 11 Here is the explanation of fields: Filename: the full pathname of the MIDI file, it is a path into the Windows temporary folder and filename starts with new00 if the file is temporary (not saved yet). Filesize: the number of bytes in this file MIDI Version: the version (also called MIDI format or MIDI type) is a number between 0 and 2. Version 0 MIDI file has only one track that contains all MIDI commands of all channels sorted by time. Version 1 MIDI file has more tracks, where first track is reserved for conductor and all other tracks should only contain one channel. Version 2 MIDI file has more tracks, where each track is a new song. MIDI tracks: The number of tracks in the MIDI file. Each track can contain MIDI commands. MIDI resolution: The resolution tells about the smallest possible note and pause steps in the song. 24 units per beat means that the smallest note length would be a 1/96 note. Song time: The total time of the song in minutes:seconds:milliseconds (from beginning till last end of track)

15 user interface 12 Play time: The total play time of the song in minutes:seconds:milliseconds (from beginning till last event in the song) MIDI initial tempo: The tempo that is used at start of the song, it is 120 beats per minute if no tempo is specified by the song. MIDI copyright: Copyright text of the MIDI publisher. MIDI lyrics: tells if lyrics are inside the song and which format it uses (karaoke words, lyrics, other). Track list: Each track can contain MIDI commands (channel number is shown in [] if the track has exactly one channel), a track title. A GM instrument name is shown that is used in this song (if the file will be played with a General MIDI device). Window settings can extend this short track info to verbose track info, which tells also other initial parameters that are used in this track. Text: Lyric: Marker: Other: The song can contain text information of different kind. This information is collected here for each of these types. More fields are shown when extra information is added by the user e.g. artist, song title, melody channel, transpose value, rating, comment. The buttons Full/Middle/Karaoke may be used to move the splitter of this window to a position that the upper information part is fully visible or the bottom karaoke part is fully visible or both parts are visible. There are also options in menu window available. There is an option in menu settings to show verbose track information. The text can be copied to clipboard (Ctrl-C) or to a text editor (Ctrl-E). The MIDI document window contains following information if a text file generated by MIDI to ASCII text conversion is loaded: // C:\gnmixer\liebessp.mid mthd version 1 // several tracks with separated channels to play all at once // 13 tracks unit 24 // is 1/4 end mthd mtrk // track 1 /* U0 */ /* 0ms */ /* U0 */ /* 0ms */ /* U0 */ /* 0ms */ /* U0 */ /* 0ms */ /* U0 */ /* 0ms */ 8279; /* U8279 */ end mtrk... trackname "Liebesspieler (Die Toten Hosen)" copyright "(c) 1990 Die Toten Hosen" marker "sequenced 1998 by GN" tact 4 / beats /* microsec/beat */ /* ms */

16 Karaoke display Load a karaoke file (.kar, MIDI with text or lyrics or markers) and play the song with internal player. The bottom half of the MIDI document window displays the karaoke song text. During playing the position of the current song text is moved into visible area and the current syllable/word is colored blue. Hint: you can resize the karaoke display by moving the splitter directly above. Hint: you can maximize the karaoke display area by clicking left mouse button taste when you are over the black area on the splitter (cursor will change when your mouse is over this part). The splitter will be moved to top and clicking again in this area will set the original size of the upper window area. Hint: You can change the karaoke text font in menu Window and view syllable breaks (-) in menu Settings. Hint: Chords of some known chord formats are displayed a line above song text. Hint: If chords should never be displayed above lyrics, they can be turned off in text file.ini with following setting: [Settings] SupportChordDisplay=0 Hint: In menu Settings you can change the karoke view display colors and fonts and other settings by choosing a predefined theme. You can define own themes in text file mygnmidi.text (documents folder). Hint: The chord font size can be specified percentually relative to song text font size in file.ini with following setting: [Settings] ChordTextPercent=80 Hint: The colors used for background, song text and chord text can be defined in file.ini with following settings: [Settings] BackgroundColor=ffffff ChordSelectedTextColor=00ff00 ChordTextColor=0000ff LyricTextColor= LyricSelectedTextColor=ff0000 The color values are hexadecimal values representing red green blue (rrggbb) as used in HTML

17 user interface 14 pages. Searching for words ""HTML colors" in internet you will find many pages that contain color tables where you can read the corresponding color value. The free graphic software gimp displays the color values in color chooser. There is also an online application for choosing a color (get hex value). Hint: Some chord formats use special characters to identify chords e.g. [Cm] {Cm} (Cm) %Cm "Cm". During karaoke lyrics display this special characters are not displayed (only Cm will be displayed). use following setting to display the original chord text: [Settings] DisplayOriginalChordFormat=1 Hint: in menu Settings there is an option to turn on/off display of a bouncing ball (during karaoke display the ball is bouncing from syllable to syllable) Warning: This option requires much computer power. Do not use this option during live performance. 2.4 Menu Following items are in the menu bar at top: Alt-F File menu Alt-A Analyse menu Alt-C Convert menu Alt-M Modify menu Alt-P Player menu Alt-S Settings menu Alt-W Window menu Alt-H Help menu The main items can also be opened by keystrokes Alt+underlined character. The submenu items can be selected by the up and down arrow keys or by pressing the underlined character in the menu item text. A popup menu item can also be opened by right arrow key. Some menu items contain a key shortcut in its menu title, this key combination can be used to start the operation directly.

18 File menu New Create a new empty MIDI file Open... Open an existing MIDI file. Browse... Display folder content Edit open a text editor for exporting MIDI information or to edit a MIDI file that is converted to ASCII text. MIDI song description show and modify song description (author, title, rating, style etc.) Close Close active MIDI information window and stop MIDI song if this song is currently playing. Save Save modified song and overwrite the file Save As... Save or rename song to a new filename and location

19 user interface Delete Erase current MIDI file Copy information copy MIDI information into clipboard Print Lyrics print song text Batch conversion apply operations to whole MIDI folder Open Demo music files Exit Exit close the application 16

20 Analyse menu Calculate maximum note polyphony Calculates maximum number of notes playing at same time in a MIDI song Check and Repair MIDI Checks if the MIDI file is standard MIDI compatible (.mid) and tries to repair corrupt MIDI files. Check all MIDI files... Check validity of all MIDI files in a folder Check Note range for natural instruments check for some sound instruments if notes are used in a realistic range Compare against a second MIDI file shows differences between two similar MIDI files Compare all MIDI files compare MIDI files in two folders to find identical or similar MIDI files Find text in MIDI and MP3 files... search text in MIDI files Guess Chords chord analysation for whole song Guess song scale/key calculate song key for a score sheet MIDI Calculator... Calculate MIDI song positions MIDI settings map song parameters landscape

21 user interface Remove hanging notes stop notes that are not stopped and play forever Tempo calculator... calculate bpm tempo of a song by clicking to the song rhythm Seek long pauses in song finds positions in MIDI song where longer pauses start Seek long notes in song finds notes in MIDI song with long durations Seek parts with notes seeks in all channels for parts that play notes Show used keys of song display song key changes used in MIDI song. Show tempo changes displays positions and tempo of all tempo changes in the MIDI song. Text positions in song displays text information contained in the MIDI song and their positions 18

22 Convert menu Change MIDI format Change MIDI format 0 to 1 or reverse RIFF MIDI to Standard MIDI Extract MIDI file from a.rmi file Generate MIDI Medley Combine MIDI files to one MIDI song (medley). Karaoke to MIDI with lyrics Converts MIDI files that contain song text to MIDI formats that can be displayed with certain keyboard displays and software. MIDI with lyrics to Karaoke (.kar) Converts MIDI files that contain song text to.kar format Compress MIDI Decreases MIDI file size without changing the musical content. MIDI to ASCII text Converts binary MIDI file to a readable text ASCII text back to MIDI Converts modified text generated by MIDI to ASCII text operation back to MIDI file Reverse MIDI song (mirror) Generates a MIDI song that allows to play a MIDI song reverse (from end to beginning) MIDI to RTTTL (ring tones)... convert MIDI melody to a phone ring tone in RTTTL format RTTTL to MIDI convert RTTTL phone ring tones into a MIDI file. MIDI to Parsons code... convert MIDI melody to Parsons code (for identifying a melody)

23 user interface 20 Initialize GM/GS/XG/GM2 mode adds a reset mode sysex command or converts MIDI file to General MIDI. Convert MIDI to (.csv) speadsheet converts MIDI data into a table that can be viewed and modified using spreadsheet applications Convert (.csv) spreadsheet to MIDI file converts modified table back to MIDI file. Prepare Casio Lightning modifies song that a Casio LK keyboard lights keys for melody and bass

24 Modify menu Controller operations Note operations Sound operations Tempo operations Volume operations Delete chords Chords editor... modify or insert or delete chords Copy part of MIDI Copies or deletes a part from a MIDI song Clone channel... Copies all commands of an existing channel to a new channel with optional delay Sort track order change the order of tracks Trim delay at end of song Deletes pauses behind ending of last note Map channel numbers... renumber the MIDI channels

25 user interface Humanize MIDI add small random timing errors to a MIDI song Change MIDI resolution (PPQ) recalculate MIDI file to a new MIDI resolution Generate setup measure... add a setup measure in front of MIDI song that initializes parameters Delete tracks remove selected MIDI tracks MIDI file copyright display existing copyright info or add a new copyright notice. MIDI file secret copyright show or add secret copyright information Edit MIDI track titles change track titles Edit Text... Modify song text and markers and track titles Karaoke editor... Synchronize song text syllables to melody notes Synchronizing editor... Synchronize song text line by line in real time during playing Insert empty measure insert an empty measure of given length Fit improvisation to score sheet maps free recorded song with help of some markers to bar positions 22

26 Controller operations submenu [in menu Modify/Controller operations] Generate rhythmic controller values Add rhythmic controllers that change linear or randomly Quantize pedal controllers to on/off... modify pedal controllers between 0 and 127 to values on or off Modify controller values by expressions... changes controller values by self defined rules Filter MIDI commands... delete selected MIDI command types Clean MIDI song delete and sort some commands

27 user interface Note operations submenu [in menu Modify/Note operations] Transpose notes (note shift)... transpose notes by some half tones up or down Replace Notes... replace note numbers by other notes Stretch note duration... increase note duration by percentage or incrementing length Delete duplicate notes remove duplicate notes that are playing at same time Split channel into lower and upper half split notes of a channel into left and right hand Monophon channels reduce note polyphony for all channels to single note at a time Quantise notes... align positions and note durations Cripple notes encrypt MIDI file that makes it difficult to print score sheet. Map notes to scale... modify notes that do not match a given scale 24

28 Sound operations submenu [in menu Modify/Sound operations] Set sound program... assign a new sound for a MIDI channel Prepare sound program for PianoDisc convert to MIDI format 0 and set special piano sound for PianoDisc system that the piano keys play magically Separate drum instruments move each drum instrument into separate track Separate notes by programs move each instrument into a separate track Tempo operations submenu [in menu Modify/Tempo operations] Count-in tempo count-in tempo by adding some drum beats Remove Count-in notes removes drum notes at beginning of song that are used only for counting in tempo Set Tempo (bpm)... set new constant tempo or change tempo by percentage Set tempo and adjust pauses to keep speed... Set tempo by changing pause times Generate a tempo slide... increase or decrease tempo steadily

29 user interface Volume operations submenu [in menu Modify/Volume operations] Fade in or out Fade a MIDI song at beginning or end Change Volume change volume or note velocities by percentage Mute voices Mute channels or tracks that you want play or sing self Mute melody mute melody voice to play it self on keyboard or replace it by a singer 26

30 Player menu Play play current MIDI song with internal MIDI player Entertainment play random MIDI or MP3 files for entertainment Play with standard MIDI player play current MIDI song with your favourite MIDI player Player status information get information about playing and navigate the internal MIDI player Reset MIDI device initialize MIDI device by playing an initialization MIDI file Stop stops the internal MIDI player (toggles between play and stop) Pause Pause or continue playing current MIDI song Backward Continue to play 30 seconds before current MIDI song position Forward Continue to play 30 seconds after current MIDI song position Create new play list starts play list editing application playlist.exe where you can add songs and store the list in a.lst text file Open a play list Choose a play list file (file extension *.lst). Reads the song list from the text file and opens a document that shows all valid entries. Errors are displayed if file is not found or file format is invalid or songs are not exising. First song is selected in the play list.

31 user interface 28 Select previous song in play list Selects the song before the current selected song. If first song was selected then the last song will be selected and brought into view. The operation is available if current active document is a play list or if there is only a single play list document open. Use key combination ctrl+left arrow. Select next song in play list Selects the song after the current selected song. If the last song was selected then the first song will be selected and brought into view. The operation is available if current active document is a play list or if there is only a single play list document open. Use key combination ctrl+right arrow. Play next song in play list If the current selected song in the play list is currently playing then the song will be stopped and the next song will be selected and played. Use key combination shift + space. If the current selected song is not playing then this song will be played. The operation is available if current active document is a play list or if there is only a single play list document open. MIDI Recorder... record MIDI song via MIDI cable from an external MIDI device Sysex transfer... transfer Sysex (dump) commands through MIDI cable to or from a MIDI device Reset midi device submenu [in menu Player/Reset MIDI device] General MIDI (GM) plays GM reset sysex or a user defined reset MIDI file General Midi2 (GM2) plays GM2 reset sysex or a user defined reset MIDI file Roland GS plays GS reset sysex or a user defined reset MIDI file Yamaha XG plays XG reset sysex or a user defined reset MIDI file Initialize plays initialization MIDI commands or a user defined reset MIDI file

32 Settings menu prepare MIDI song before playing Choose options to prepare your MIDI files before they are played (common volume, device mode initialization...). reset device after each song Choose this option to send SOS MIDI commands whenever MIDI playing stops Reset output device now Sends SOS MIDI commands to current output device to stop playing of any notes now. MIDI Output... Select an output device for playing MIDI. MIDI Input... Select an input device for recording MIDI. Start song automatically play song file automatically when opening file or dropping file above application window. MIDI file compression Use standard MIDI file compression at save operation (suggested). Combine note on/off pairs during CSV conversion generates at conversion separate NoteOn and NoteOff lines or a Note line for each pair Verbose track info display short or verbose track info Show Syllables displays syllable breaks in karaoke text e.g. in-for-ma-ti-on Show bouncing ball in karaoke display a ball bounces from syllable to syllable (Warning: this option uses much computer power, do not use it during live performance) Follow Lyrics the option must be checked that the lyrics are highlighted during song playing (in karaoke display) Use big toolbars toggle between using big or small toolbar buttons (default is using big toolbar buttons for big screen resolution)

33 user interface Window menu New window Opens another window with same content Cascade Windows are moved so that one overlaps the other. Tile Windows are moved one beside the other Arrange Icons Minimized windows are arranged to get better overview Close all windows Quickly close all windows without saving changes Player Toolbar Hides or shows player dockable toolbar Status Bar Hides or shows status bar at bottom of application Choose Text Font... text font used in MIDI information window Choose Dialog Font... text font used in dialog content. Default font is MS Sans Serif 8. Do not choose too big font because many dialog items have fixed size and the item text will then be cut. A nice font is e.g. Comic Sans MS 9 Choose Karaoke Font... text font used in karaoke display Choose Synchronisation editor font... select a font and font size for displaying lyric lines in synchronisation editor dialog

34 31 Choose Karaoke editor list font... select a font and font size for displaying lyric syllables in karaoke editor dialog Choose Karaoke editor preview font... select a font and font size for displaying preview lyrics in karaoke editor dialog Themes... shows the collected list of themes found in *.theme text files (in program folder, in appdata folder, in documents folder). A theme is a collection of display settings of the karaoke view (e.g. font, background color, text colors, karaoke ball color, karaoke ball size). Some standard themes are available in program folder (file standard.theme). Own themes can be added to mygnmidi.theme (in folder documents) with a text editor. Maximize information window splits the current window so that only the upper information part is visible Maximize karaoke window splits the current window so that only the bottom karaoke part is visible Split karaoke and information window splits the window into half so that both karaoke and information parts are visible Window list Shows list of currently open document windows, the active document is checked. Selecting a document window will bring it into front and activate it Help menu About... displays copyright and version number Documentation open help document for current topic (key F1 can be used) Homepage goes directly to (here you can download newer program versions) Check updates opens a web page at that checks if there is an update version available. For registered users it also checks if there is a newer update that the purchased license does not include. Display recent news... opens a web page in your browser with the latest news about

35 user interface 32 Purchase license... order a single user license for using Tip of the day... read some useful hints about using this software Open log file... writes a log file with information which commands were used and errors and warnings if something happened. This file can be viewed in a text editor using this operation. Request access code for this computer When you have installed a full license this option might appear to register the current computer for use with this license. This counts the number of computers used with your license file (max. 5 computers for a license). Requesting an access code can be done online (webpage) or offline (by ). might ask self for entering the request code some weeks after your order. 3 operations 3.1 Batch operations for favourite operations

36 33 [in menu File] A batch operation is an operation that is applied to all MIDI files in a MIDI folder (including all sub folders). Operations usable for batch execution Menu File contains item Batch conversion that displays the menu of currently available operations. When no MIDI document window is open then the menu and the toolbar displays only batch operations. Steps 1. a dialog to fill required parameters for the operation appears and must be filled and completed with OK (this does not occur if the operation has no parameters). It is the same dialog that appears when performing the operation on a single MIDI document. 2. a source folder must be chosen that contains the original files that should be converted. Select folder from previous operations using drop down combo box. 3. a destination folder must be chosen (the folder must exist and should be empty), use create new folder to create a new folder (some operations don't need a destination folder when they don't generate output files e.g. Check all MIDI files). Select folder from previous operations using drop down combo box. 4. You will be asked if the conversion should be started, continue with Yes or cancel the operation with No. You should check if the displayed path information is correct. 5. batch execution starts after the above steps are accepted with OK or yes buttons. 6. The batch conversion displays the operation and current source and destination file. The batch conversion can be aborted when needed. 7. At completion of the batch conversion a text file will be displayed (with Notepad editor) with important information about certain file conversions (e.g. errors, warnings, information). You should take care about the information, and you can save or print the text file with Notepad

37 operations editor. The destination folder contains the resulting files with same names at successful conversion (some operations might change file extension automatically e.g. MIDI -> Text renames to *.txt). Hint: The source MIDI folder must be different to the destination MIDI folder, this operation writes the resulting files into a new folder instead of overwriting your files. Never try to convert from a folder into same folder, this could destroy your MIDI files! Hint: Choose a destination drive that has enough free disk space, else the operation might not complete successfully. Demo limitation the unregistered program demo (for testing only) limits the number of conversion for a batch operation. The registered program has no conversion limitation. Functions Check all MIDI files Compare all MIDI files Rename file names to their song title Rename track names to their MIDI filename Compress MIDI files Convert all ASCII text files back to MIDI Convert all MIDI files to ASCII text Convert all MIDI files to MIDI format 0 Convert all MIDI files to MIDI format 1 Convert all Karaoke to MIDI with lyrics Add GM/XG/GS/GM2 initialization to all MIDI files Fade all MIDI files Filter MIDI commands in all MIDI files Change volume of all MIDI files Change midi resolution (PPQ) in all MIDI files Copy part of all MIDI files into new files Guess chords in all MIDI files Map channel numbers in all MIDI files Modify controller values in all MIDI files Replace notes in all MIDI files Remove chords in all MIDI files... Separate drum instruments in all MIDI files Separate notes by programs in all MIDI files Set common volume in all MIDI files Sound setup for Pianodisc in all MIDI files Trim mute end of song in all MIDI files Shift notes (transpose) in all MIDI files 3.2 Open a MIDI file [in menu File] A file dialog starts and you can choose the folder location and name of the MIDI file. Use the directory list and filename list to find it. Once you have specified an existing file, the MIDI information will automatically be analyzed and shown in a new window with filename as title. If the MIDI song contains karaoke text then the information window has two parts:

38 35 upper part shows MIDI information lower part shows karaoke song text. Both are separated by a splitter, which you can move up or down with left mouse button to get more space for upper or lower part. splitter It is also possible to open a text file that contains readable MIDI text (generated by MIDI to ASCII converter). This text will be shown in the window. If the text is very large then it is cut at end, use Ctrl-E to display the full text with notepad editor or open the text with a text editor that can handle huge text files. A vertical scroll bar on right side of window is available if the information in the windows is larger than the display size. You can scroll the text up and down with mouse and on some systems with a wheel mouse. A horizontal scroll bar on bottom of the window is available if the information width is larger than the window. If the file is not a MIDI file or if the MIDI file is corrupt then an error message is shown instead of the MIDI file information. Try to repair the MIDI file. The file menu contains also the list of recent loaded files, this can be used to reopen one of these files quickly. Importing other file formats.kar Karaoke files (.kar) are valid standard MIDI files, so just open them as MIDI files..rmi RIFF MIDI files are multimedia archives, which can contain one or more MIDI songs. Using Open MIDI file will only import first standard MIDI song..st3 Karaoke files in format.st3 (only version 4.5 files supported) can be imported to MIDI song with song text..txt Text files converted by function MIDI to ASCII text can be displayed and then converted back into MIDI file. Big files will not be displayed completely, use a text editor that can display and edit big text files instead..rtttl small text files that contain ringing tones in format RTTTL will be displayed in a window. Such a file can be converted using function RTTTL to MIDI if content is valid RTTTL format..mp3 ID3 tag Information of a MP3 music file will be displayed in information window. Available MP3 song text is displayed in karaoke window. A few operations can be applied to MP3 music files with (e.g. play, entertain, synchronize lyrics, find text)..mp3 lyrics are not loaded if ID3v2 block is missing

39 operations 36 ID3v2 data is not correctly formatted according to ID3v2 specification lyrics data is encrypted (rarely used) lyrics data is compressed (rarely used) 3.3 Close a MIDI file [in menu File] You can close a MIDI document window at any time, even if the song is currently playing. When closing new generated or modified MIDI files (marked with a * in title) then the program asks if you want to save it Yes will ask for a filename No does not save and removes the MIDI Cancel the window will remain open If you want to close all MIDI files without saving modified ones then use Close all windows in window menu. Save your important modified files before exiting the software! Each document window has a close button on right top of its caption that can also used for closing the MIDI document window. 3.4 Play a MIDI file [in menu Player] Play command will start the internal MIDI player for the MIDI file in window that currently has the focus (this window has a highlighted caption). It will automatically stop playing the file when closing the file or starting a new play command. Space key starts playing the song. With menu settings you can turn on options that the MIDI song will be prepared for your device before playing. With menu settings you can also select the output device that should play this song. Player status window displays information about playing and contains buttons to navigate. Hint: since version 2.48 uses an own internal MIDI player (the one that is also used by GNMixer) instead of the formerly used Microsoft MCI player to play MIDI files. If you want to use again the MCI player (for whatever reason) you can set this back with following gnmidi.ini setting: [Settings] PlayerUseMCI=1 Hint: since version 2.48 can also play MP3 songs (through Microsoft MCI) and display synchronized song text.

40 Stop the MIDI song player [in menu Player] The stop command stops the MIDI song currently played by the internal MIDI player. It does not stop an external MIDI player (for this use the stop command on your external player). Space key stops current song playing. 3.6 Save a MIDI file [in menu File] Save The save command must be used to store a new generated or modified MIDI file. During editing modified files are kept in a temporary files folder and will be deleted when closing the application if they were not saved. Save As... The save as command is used to store the file with a new name or to an other folder. It will ask for choosing the new file name and location. Hint: Working folder changes after Save As operation when a new location is selected. For copying files to a slow drive (e.g. floppy disk) better use Windows Explorer than Save As because future operations might access the slow drive and that could slow down the work speed unnecessarily. 3.7 Change MIDI format [in menu Convert] This operation converts MIDI format (also called version or type) from 0 to 1 or 1 to 0. Format 0: all MIDI commands are in a single track and sorted by time. Some devices only support this file format. Format 1: MIDI commands are assigned to more tracks, each track should have not more than one channel. First track is reserved to conductor. Convert all MIDI files to MIDI format 0: These conversions are also available as batch conversion. The MIDI information window tells the file format of the MIDI file.

41 operations Check and repair a MIDI file [in menu Analyse] The operation checks the MIDI file against the Standard MIDI file format. For a valid MIDI file it will display the message MIDI file has valid standard MIDI format. Repair not needed. When opening a corrupt MIDI file an error message will be displayed in the MIDI information window. The operation can repair common MIDI file problems (e.g. invalid command parameters, truncated MIDI file), but it can not repair severe errors (e.g. if lost data at beginning of file) and repairing might lose data. The operation is also available as batch operation. 3.9 Convert RIFF MIDI (.rmi) to standard MIDI file (.mid) [in menu Convert] This operation is only available when opening a file with extension.rmi (RIFF MIDI file). Those files are multimedia archives that can contain MIDI documents and other multimedia documents like WAV, AVI. The conversion extracts a contained MIDI file from the archive Fade a MIDI song [in menu Modify/Volume operations as fade in or out] Fade operation increases or decreases volume level at beginning or ending of a MIDI song steadily so that the loudness fades linear. The fade dialog occurs and you can choose if you want to fade in (at beginning of song) or fade out (at end of song). A duration of 10 seconds will be offered and can be changed. By default the volume changes by inserting increasing/decreasing volume controller (#7), you can choose between 3 different methods that affect song volume. Usually all channels are faded, choose a channel to operate only on this channel. Fade in: fades from beginning of song for the specified duration (from 0% to 100%, increasing note velocities ).

42 39 Fade out: fades till end of song for the specified duration (from 100% down to 0%, decreasing note velocities). In Duration field you must enter a valid time in one of following formats: minutes:seconds.milliseconds (e.g. 1:25.300) minutes:seconds (e.g. 0:10) seconds.milliseconds (e.g ) seconds (e.g. 10) Method you can choose one of following kinds of changing volume, we suggest modifying volume controller Volume Controller: Expression Controller: Note Velocities: MIDI controllers #7 are inserted MIDI controllers #11 are inserted Note velocities of each note are adjusted Hint: Modifying note velocities can influence voice of instruments on some devices. Channels: By default all channels are faded, optionally you can choose a certain channel to fade. In older versions a more difficult dialog was at this place, this old fade dialog can be reactivated by entering following lines into gnmidi.ini (only if you really need this old dialog): [Settings] SimpleFadeDialog= Make a MIDI medley [in menu Convert] The MIDI medley operation displays a dialog where you can enter a list of MIDI files. After the list is ready and sorted in your preferred order press the Medley Button. Then the operation checks MIDI format of all input files and converts all MIDI files temporarily to format 0. If there are invalid files or files that are not format 0 or format 1in the list then the operation stops and the first invalid file is opened. You could try to repair the file. All MIDI files are concatenated to a file containing the songs in a sequence (medley). No pauses are removed or inserted. If you want a pause between the songs then insert a small MIDI song that contains only the pause.

43 operations 40 The MIDI medley will be opened as a new document. The list box remembers recent used filenames, use New Medley button to clear this list when starting a new medley. Use Insert MIDI to add one or more files to the song list, the new files will be inserted before selected entry in the list. Use Remove MIDI to delete the selected filename from the song list. Use Move Up and Move Down to sort the list entries. Align measures between songs this Option can be selected to insert pause MIDI units that the first bar of next song is correctly aligned. Otherwise there might be a smaller bar then expected (e.g. 3/4 instead of 4/4). Add initializations between songs When the option is checked (default) then controllers and other important MIDI parameters are added to initialize settings of next song to avoid bad sound if the author of an input file has not initialized a parameter and in medley value of recent song is used for the next song. This option can be turned off if you are sure that all necessary MIDI parameters are initialized for each song and don't conflict. Especially when the result is not used as medley but as one song combined from several parts, then the extra initializations are not necessary (could cause a small delay) Play MIDI with favorite MIDI player [in menu Player] This operation starts the application that is associated with the file extension of current MIDI file (usually.mid, could also be.kar). It automatically adds the full location and name of current MIDI document as first parameter. Applications can be associated to file extensions with help of Windows Explorer. The external player can be started with Ctrl+Space key.

44 Change Volume (or Note velocities) [in menu Modify/Volume operations] You can choose between modifying volume by volume controllers or note velocities. You can change original values percentually or set them to a new constant value. Hint: Prefer modifying volume controllers but if the volume controllers are already at maximum level then only way might be to increase note velocities. Percentage Enter a percentage between 0% and 1000%. Percentage 100% does not change volume. Value Enter a value between 0 and 127. Value 0 is not allowed for setting note velocities, this value has a reserved meaning in MIDI. Channels Optionally choose a channel between 1 and 16 or all channels (default is all channels). Minimum Value Values smaller than minimum value will be set to minimum value (default: 0) Maximum value Values higher than maximum value will be set to maximum value (default: 127) Turn off "adjust volume to common level" option in menu settings, when you test the volume changes with player, since this option will automatically adjust volume of played song to a common level.

45 operations Copy part from a MIDI file [in menu Modify] Copy part This operation copies a part of the MIDI song into a new MIDI file. The range start-end will be copied into a new MIDI file. Notes that play at start or end position will be cut to a smaller note inside the new range. Settings are not removed, so the part will play with original settings. Duplicate controller settings before the start position are combined. Pitchbend commands before start are combined. Remove part This operation deletes a part of the MIDI song. Notes and lyrics that are fully inside middle part are deleted, notes overlapping middle range are shortened, pauses in middle part are deleted. Controllers, Pitchbend inside the middle part are kept and optimized so that the settings necessary for playing right part correctly are not lost. Time units: Choose one of the 3 position formats for specifying start and ending of the cut range. Usually real time is wanted. Realtime (mm:ss.ms) Time position relative to the beginning of the MIDI song. You can specify (minutes:seconds:milliseconds (e.g. 3:26.975) or minutes:seconds (e.g. 3:27) or seconds (e.g. 207). MIDI units Precise positions in MIDI file units (a number between 0 and last unit in MIDI song). MIDI units are smallest usable note length or pause length in a MIDI song (e.g. at song resolution 96 a MIDI unit is a 1/384 note length). Beats (quarter notes) position specified in beats (a number between 0 and last beat in MIDI song) since start of song (a beat is a quarter note) Starttime: Endtime: Enter start and end position in selected position format.

46 Generate control events in rhythmic or random way [in menu Modify/Controller operations] This operation adds controllers that behave random or according to a linear rhythmic way. The parameters specify which controller should be added and how the controller values must behave during time e.g. increase volume from one position to another change balance steadily from left to right and back modify expression controller Controller: Choose a controller number from the list. Controller commands of this kind will be generated. Usually volume or balance controllers are preferred here. Channel: choose one channel from the list, the controller commands will be added to this channel. Track: track number can be selected optionally (by default all tracks are considered). It could be useful if the chosen channel number is used by more than one track. Time: enter two millisecond values to generate controllers only within a certain time range (default is full MIDI song time range). Second value must be greater than first one (e.g is range between second 30 and 60). Step time (ms): specifies the delay between two generated controllers (two steps) in milliseconds. When the value is small then huge count of controllers might be generated. Value range: Controller values must be in range Optionally you can force the generated controller values to be in an other value range (e.g ). Init value: Specify the initial controller value that should be generated at start. Increment:

47 operations 44 Specify an incremental value if the controller values should be increased or decreased by a value. Random: Check that option if the values should be generated by random instead of linear incrementation. Max: Random generated values maximum difference to previous generated value. This value restricts the random distance to the next generated value. Direction: increasing next value is calculated by adding the increment value decreasing next value is calculated by subtracting the increment value random next value is calculated by adding or subtracting the increment value Loop: no loop stop generating values when the next generated value would exceed the value range loop cycle when value exceeds value range then restart with initial value again loop up and down when value exceeds value range in one direction then continue in reverse direction

48 Show short or verbose track information [in menu Settings] With this option you can choose between short or large information about MIDI tracks that will be displayed in each MIDI information window. short track information A short track information line contains track number [channel number]: "track title" (initial program) Track Track Track Track Track Track Track Track Track Track Track Track Track 1 [no channel]: "Liebesspieler (Die Toten Hosen)" 2 [no channel]: "Soft Karaoke" 3 [no channel]: "Words" 4 [1]: "Melody" (Acordion) 5 [3]: "whistling" (Whistle) 6 [4]: "horse running" (WoodBlok) 7 [5]: "choir" (AahChoir) 8 [6]: "solo guitar" (Distortd) 9 [10]: "Drums" (GM Drums) 10 [12]: "Bass" (FngrBass) 11 [13]: "Western guitar" (SteelGtr) 12 [14]: "Western Guitar 2" (NylonGtr) 13 [15]: "Mute guitar" (MuteGtr) Example: Track 4 [1]: "Melody" (Acordion) that means: track number is 4, contains only one channel with number 1, track title is "Melody" and initial program (sound) is Accordion. verbose track information A verbose track information contains track number: channel: channel number Name: "track title" Program: sound program Volume: volume (0-127) Balance: balance (0=left, 64=middle, 127=right) chorus: chorus effect level (0-127) reverb: reverb effect level (0-127) notes: deepest and highest note used (note range size in half tones) Track 1: channel: no channel Name: "Liebesspieler (Die Toten Hosen)" Track 2: channel: no channel Name: "Soft Karaoke" Track 3: channel: no channel Name: "Words" Track 4: channel: 1 Name: "Melody" Program: Acordion Volume: 127 (0=mute,127=full)

49 operations Balance: 64 (0=left, 64=mid, 127=right) chorus: 14 (0-127) reverb: 42 (0-127) notes: g#5 - e6 (9) Track 5: channel: 3 Name: "whistling" Program: Whistle Volume: 70 (0=mute,127=full) Balance: 97 (0=left, 64=mid, 127=right) chorus: 14 (0-127) reverb: 42 (0-127) notes: g#6 - b7 (16) Track 6: channel: 4 Name: "horse running" Program: WoodBlok Volume: 90 (0=mute,127=full) Balance: 93 (0=left, 64=mid, 127=right) chorus: 14 (0-127) reverb: 42 (0-127) notes: g#4 - c#5 (6) Track 7: channel: 5 Name: "choir" Program: AahChoir Volume: 80 (0=mute,127=full) Balance: 30 (0=left, 64=mid, 127=right) chorus: 14 (0-127) reverb: 42 (0-127) notes: g#5 - e6 (9) Track 8: channel: 6 Name: "solo guitar" Program: Distortd Volume: 90 (0=mute,127=full) Balance: 38 (0=left, 64=mid, 127=right) chorus: 56 (0-127) reverb: 113 (0-127) notes: b4 - b5 (13) Track 9: channel: 10 Name: "Drums" Program: GM Drums Volume: 111 (0=mute,127=full) chorus: 0 (0-127) notes: c3 - a4 (22) Track 10: channel: 12 Name: "Bass" Program: FngrBass Volume: 95 (0=mute,127=full) Balance: 64 (0=left, 64=mid, 127=right) chorus: 0 (0-127) reverb: 0 (0-127) notes: d#2 - g#3 (18) Track 11: channel: 13 Name: "Western guitar" Program: SteelGtr Volume: 77 (0=mute,127=full) Balance: 85 (0=left, 64=mid, 127=right) chorus: 56 (0-127) reverb: 56 (0-127) notes: g#3 - c#6 (30) Track 12: 46

50 47 channel: 14 Name: "Western Guitar 2" Program: NylonGtr Volume: 86 (0=mute,127=full) chorus: 42 (0-127) reverb: 42 (0-127) notes: d#4 - g#5 (18) Track 13: channel: 15 Name: "Mute guitar" Program: MuteGtr Volume: 95 (0=mute,127=full) chorus: 42 (0-127) reverb: 42 (0-127) notes: g#3 - c#5 (18) 3.17 Karaoke to MIDI with lyrics [in menu Convert] A karaoke MIDI file contains song text in different kind of formats. This utility converts the song into MIDI format 0 and writes the lyrics in a format that is used by different keyboard models or software players. Choose one of following formats, try some of them if you don' t know what your keyboard supports: Cakewalk (4.0 or higher, META lyric commands) Cakewalk (3.x or higher, META marker commands) Tune 1000 (standard MIDI lyrics) Chords above lyrics (two lines for display using fixed fonts like Courier) Farfisa F5 (sysex commands) Roland (META lyrics) Yamaha XF (SL02) Roland sysex video lyrics M-Live Wordbox sysex Casio TV

51 operations 48 break lines at max. characters: Enter a maximum line length (default 40 characters) to limit the line length for certain karaoke display. Enter 0 if no limit is set (no breaking). Line breaks are inserted when song text lines are longer than this limit, in most cases the line break is done at a space, in rare cases it is done within word (e.g. when no space near end of limit). Try different formats for use with your keyboard and choose the best one, start with option Tune 1000 that works with many keyboard displays. Some keyboard displays don't accept longer lines, specify a maximum line length that automatically breaks the lines into smaller ones..kar format.kar files are MIDI file format 1 files that contain META text commands to store the text in a special formatting. This operation can convert.kar files into other lyric formats. Use Convert MIDI with lyrics to Karaoke MIDI to convert a MIDI file to a MIDI file with.kar formatted lyrics Convert MIDI with lyrics to Karaoke MIDI [in menu Convert] This operation converts a MIDI file that contains song text into a.kar compatible MIDI file. Save the files with file extension.kar to play them with other karaoke players that support.kar. The conversion creates a format 1 MIDI file that contains.kar formatted META text commands (line breaks, paragraphs, karaoke info) Trim mute song ending [in menu Modify] This operation deletes a pause (that is longer than a second) at end of MIDI song (only pause that is behind end of last playing note). Hint: If a MIDI song contains notes that are not stopped correctly (hanging notes) or if a long note at end of song becomes silent before it is really stopped then this operation is not available, because there is not really a pause at end of the song (there are still notes not turned off). Use cut operation to get copy a part of the MIDI song into a new MIDI file. Hint: The silence at end of the song must be longer than a second that this operation deletes the pause. Hint: This operation is available as batch operation.

52 Calculate maximum note polyphony [in menu Analyse] This operation calculates the maximum number of notes playing at same time (considering influence of used piano pedals). It displays a message box with following info: number of notes playing at same time time position where this number of notes are playing (hour:minute:second:millisecond) MIDI position where this number of notes are playing (in MIDI units) Notes that are not stopped correctly can increase the calculated maximum note polyphony. If the value is high and the position is near end of song then you should check if the song contains hanging notes Reset GM, GM2, GS, XG, INIT [in menu Player/Reset MIDI device] These commands play a common used standard sysex command (default) or a user defined MIDI file (one for each button). It is useful to reset the sound card or force it into a certain mode before playing MIDI files, otherwise certain MIDI devices can react unexpectedly by playing wrong sounds (e.g. drums play piano sound). The standard sysex commands will work only if your sound device supports GM, GM2, GS or XG compatible modes. Read about supported MIDI commands in MIDI implementation chart of your keyboard manual. INIT by default INIT button sends MIDI commands that reset common used controllers, pitch bend, sound programs. You can redefine the buttons for playing your own initialization MIDI files by modifying.ini file: [Settings] GM=drive:\path\filename.mid GM2=drive:\path\filename.mid GS=drive:\path\filename.mid XG=drive:\path\filename.mid Init=drive:\path\filename.mid Replace the right sides of = by path of an existing MIDI file, e.g. GS=c:\gnmidi\gsreset.mid

53 operations 50 The content of your user defined initialization MIDI files is not limited by any rules, you can even play notes in such a file Reset device (SOS) [in menu Settings] SOS command sends few MIDI commands to current output device in order to stop playing notes, reset controllers and settings that future songs will start playing at a defined state. This command is usually used, if a currently stopped song did not stop all notes. Hint: This command can be set as player option, so that it SOS will be automatically done after each stop of player Prepare MIDI song before playing [in menu Settings] These options prepare a MIDI file before it is played with internal or standard MIDI player, selecting one or more options will play a temporary MIDI file instead of the original MIDI file. No mode changes plays the original MIDI file without any initialization or program modifications, except common volume option that will be considered. GM only removes all non-gm MIDI commands (bank controls, sysex) and add GM Reset sysex. This option is useful for GM compatible MIDI devices that would play GM2, GS or XG MIDI files wrong. GM reset adds a GM sysex. GM2 reset adds a GM2 sysex. GS reset adds a GS sysex. XG reset adds a XG sysex. Common volume adjust volume level to a common volume level by modifying some controller values.

54 Sort tracks in a format 1 MIDI file [in menu Modify] This operation is used to change the current order of tracks in a MIDI format 1 file. This is useful when you need a track at certain position or when your MIDI device can only play few tracks. The dialog shows current tracks of a MIDI song. Each line contains: Original track number: Track 1 etc. Track channel number: 1-16 or - (if no channel MIDI events) or multi (if more than one channel used in this track) Track title: Title "..." or Tempo track or none Track initial program: Program... or none Move Up Move Down select a line and move it up or down. It is not allowed to move track 1 (Tempo track). It is not allowed to move a track in front of Tempo track. It is not possible to move last track down. The buttons are disabled in these cases Select MIDI output device for internal MIDI player [in menu Settings] Windows system allows to install more than one MCI compatible MIDI devices (sound card, software synthesizer, external MIDI device connection,...). internal player plays MIDI files through the device selected from this list of output devices. This setting does not affect external MIDI players, they should have their own settings. MidiMapper

55 operations 52 Choose MidiMapper if you want to use the device that is used by Mediaplayer as standard output device Compress MIDI [in menu Convert] This operation tries to compress your MIDI file. The compression does not change your MIDI song content, it only stores the data more compact if possible. After compression some statistics on compression are displayed. The compression ratio depends on input, the results can be 10%-15% smaller than original file size. A compressed file can't be compressed again, in this case the operation will tell Compression not necessary Invalid files can't be compressed: Operation failed 3.27 Humanize MIDI [in menu Modify] Use this function to make computer sequenced or generated MIDI songs with exact timing more like played by human, with little inexactness in timing and key pressure. Try different levels to find a middle between too exact and too inexact. humanize timing produces little random timing errors within the selected level. Timing is limited to remain within 1/16 note of original timing. This affects the position of all commands and notes and duration of notes. humanize note velocities varies all note velocities by random within selected level. This affects the key pressure of note on/off commands, usually this influences notes volume and sound effects. Level of humanizing choose a level between 1 and 10, where 3 is soft, 5 is medium, 10 is heavy.

56 Transpose MIDI [in menu Modify/Note operations] Use this operation e.g. if you need to transpose song notes to the song key of the lead singer. Transpose operation (also called shift note) transposes note values some half tones up or down. Increment Enter a increment number of half tones between Negative values shift notes downward, positive values shift notes upward. 12 half tones are an octave. Channels Transpose can be applied to all channels (1-16) all channels except drums (1-9,11-16 assuming GM drum channel 10) single channel (1-16) Usually the operation is applied to all channels except drum channel. Hint: This operation is also available as batch conversion Map Channel Numbers [in menu Modify]

57 operations 54 This utility renumbers the channel numbers of all MIDI commands. Fill the mapping table for each channel that you want to renumber. E.g. map channel 1 to 3 and channel 3 to 1 will exchange current channels 1 and 3. Hint: You can map one or more channel numbers at once (exchange their numbers). If more track use same channel number then changes are done in all these tracks. This operation is also available for batch application 3.30 Guess Chords [in menu Analyse] This operation analyzes chords for a MIDI song. It is called "guess" chords because in many situations there are more than one possible chords and an automatic analysation must decide for probably best chord. The chord text format defines how the resulting chord info should be stored inside the resulting MIDI file. Choose the MIDI commands that are to use and how the chord names should be formatted as text. Chord output Markers Lyrics Text Harmony notes (produces chord notes instead of named chords) Yamaha PSR meta (XF) M-Live Wordbox sysex Pgmusic Inc. Band-in-a-Box Sharps or Flat keys use sharp keys (#) use flat keys (b) Chord text formatting [Cm] e.g. F# is preferred instead of Gb e.g. Bb is preferred instead of A#

58 55 (Cm) {Cm} "Cm" Cm %Cm (used by Technics KN keyboards) Chord name formatting Cm/CM7 short chord names Cmin/Cmaj7 long chord names beginning with lower case letter CMin/CMaj7 long chord names beginning with upper case letter DO/RE7 italian chord names (DO, RE, MI, FA, SO, LA, SI) Frequency Each bar (measure) twice each bar (half measure) each beat (quarter note) Hint: It is important that the bar information in the MIDI file is correct else notes start at random positions within a bar and that causes inexact results! Hint: analyzing chords for each bar usually gives better results than doing it for each beat. Harmony channel is only used for chord output Harmony notes, the generated chord notes will be added to this channel. Harmony notes are used for controlling a vocal harmonizer. Channels all channels except drum channel 10 single channel 1-16 By default all channels are considered for analyzing (melody, bass, accompaniment,...) together. Only the notes matching the given channel will be used for analyzing chords. This might give better results if the MIDI song already contains a chord notes track (specify the channel of these chord notes). Recognized chord types Major chords minor chords sus4 9th dim aug 6th 7th 7Maj Hint: If too few notes are available within a bar then the analysation won't guess the chord and the missing chord will be marked with? (e.g. [?]). If you want to ignore the [?] marks then add following setting to the gnmidi.ini file: [Settings] GuessChordsSkipFailChord=1 Hint: Missing notes can cause that a chord is not found, e.g. C-G-A won't be recognized as C6 chord since note E is missing. Hint: If chords are not recognized (or wrong) because of missing notes then you could add the

59 operations 56 complete chord notes in a new track (silent) and repeat chord guessing. Hint: pitchbending is currently not considered. If a note is changed by pitchbend near to an other note still the specified note is used for recognition. Hint: since the chords are generated for a bar, half bar or beat the bar information is essential for this operation. If bar information is incorrect then notes from previous bar section and next part section would be used and the mixture of notes cause other and probably wrong recognized chords. The text events are synchronized to the bar positions. Some MIDI players can show them while playing (e.g. midimach,, GNMixer). Wordbox Wordbox is a MIDI text player from Italian producer M-Live, which transfers song text and chord names through MIDI cable and mainly supports musicians on stage during singing. Instead of exporting guessed chords directly into a Wordbox compatible format, you can first merge the chord text enclosed in [...] with song text (choose lyric or text depending on the current used song text format) and later convert song text including chord names into a Wordbox compatible format. This has advantage, that the analyzed chord names can be checked and modified if necessary, which can't be done after exporting them into a Wordbox sysex format using. Hint: Most chord are stored as readable text, they could be modified with operations like modify text Other formats are very special for a certain device and can not be modified with. Chords in format Yamaha PSR meta could be modified with using conversion to ASCII text and back (there the psr chords look like psrmeta chord "Am"). Band-In-The-Box is a famous MIDI Software by company Pgmusic Inc. which uses chords as a key feature during work with MIDI files. The generated chords usually can only be used with the software products of this company. Following setting in gnmidi.ini can be used to force generating of empty chord lead measures: [Settings] BIABLeadMeasures=0 Hint: shows chords of some known chord formats above the song text line and also displays chords using operations copy and print song lyrics Split Drums [in menu Modify/Sound operations] General MIDI drums are always at channel 10. Each note is an other drum instrument. This operation generates a new track for each used drum instrument and moves the notes into the corresponding track. Each generated drum track is named by the GM drum instrument. When loading such a file into a sequencer then the drum tracks have separate lines for each drum instrument, which is sometimes easier to edit or understand Split Programs [in menu Modify/Sound operations]

60 57 This operation separates all channels that contain more sound program changes into own tracks (one for each sound program). The channel number and sound does not change, only the display changes when loading the file into a sequencer Replace Notes [in menu Modify/Note operations] This operation replaces notes numbers that match the given channel number by new channel and new note number. The translations are entered in a note replacement table which can be stored and reloaded for future sessions. The table remembers its last content. Each row in the table defines a note replacement. Replacing is done in order of table entries. Hint: drum channel contains drum notes where each note number is an other drum instrument. This operation can be used to convert drum tables between two devices (e.g. keyboard drums to GM drums) Hint: set old channel to "any" if you want to replace or delete notes on all channels. Hint: set new channel to "same" if you don't want to change the channel number against a new channel number. Filename displays the last loaded file name. A * sign is appended when the data has been modified since loading. If exiting the dialog with OK button and data has been modified without saving then the data is automatically stored in lastrepl.rpl file.

61 operations 58 Clear start a new replacement table. Edit edit the current selected replacement in an own dialog. Double click with left mouse button on the line does same. Append add a new note replacement at end of table. Insert enter a new note replacement before current selected row. Delete deletes current selected row Load Previously saved replacement tables (*.rpl files) can be reloaded. You can also edit *.rpl files with notepad, they are simple text files. Save Save your replacement table in a.rpl file that the replacement can be used later again for other MIDI files. Deleting notes This operation is also usable for deleting certain note numbers from given or any channel by setting new note to value "delete". Moving notes This operation is also usable for moving certain note numbers from one channel to a new channel. To renumber a whole channel you should use operation Map channel numbers. This operation is also available for batch application

62 Change Resolution [in menu Modify] MIDI resolution can be changed without changing tempo, the pauses are quantised to the new resolution steps. Old resolution current MIDI song resolution New resolution choose new resolution value from a list of common used resolution values. MIDI Resolution (ppq) MIDI resolution defines number of units per quarter note for whole song (resolution). A MIDI unit is the smallest usable pause or note duration in the song. The smallest usable pause or note is 1/(4*resolution) units (e.g. for resolution 96 the smallest note is 1/384 = 1/(3*128), that means that it can be used precisely for trioles of 1/128 notes). Hint: 96 ppq is recommended for General MIDI compatible songs. Hint: Some players might not be able to play songs with too high resolution, reducing resolution with this operation should help Set copyright information [in menu Modify] If the current MIDI document contains a copyright notice then the copyright is displayed (the info is also displayed in the document window). Copyright: (c) 1990 Die Toten Hosen

63 operations 60 If no copyright command is in the file then the operation allows to enter a new copyright text. The new copyright notice is added to first track. It is not possible to modify an existing copyright with this operation! Legal notice: Add copyright only if you are owner of copyright, i.e. you are composer of the song or you have licensed the distribution rights for this song from the copyright owner Edit track titles [in menu Modify] This utility is used to rename track titles (also called track names) or optionally delete a track. Select a track before editing or deleting a track. Edit Title Current selected track title will be displayed and can be replaced by a new title. Delete Track Marks track title of selected track with!delete! With OK button all marked tracks that way will be deleted. Hint: if a track contains more than one track titles (should not occur in a standard MIDI file) then all old track titles are removed and the new track title will be inserted at beginning of the track.

64 Calculate tempo (BPM) [in menu Analyse] This tempo calculator is used to find out tempo of an existing song on CD or tape. The dialog shows the calculated tempo in bpm (beats per minute) Click at every beat Click left mouse button or press Space key at every beat in the song. Try to hold the speed of the rhythm. The average delay between clicks will be calculated into bpm tempo values. For constant tempo the calculated value gets more and more precise when you click longer in same tempo. Tempo can change By default the calculator assumes that the rhythm plays at constant tempo. Check the option if the tempo can change during the song Stretch notes duration [in menu Modify/Note operations]

65 operations 62 This operation increases or decreases note durations by specified percentage or value. stretch note length by percentage (%) enter a percentage value, all note durations in given range and channels will be stretched by this percentage. stretch note length by incrementation (+) enter a value, this value will be added to all note length (MIDI units), negative values will decrease note length. value enter a value into the edit field or use the arrows to increase or decrease the value Channels choose all channels (1-16, default) or select a single channel (1-16) Range (min. unit - max. unit) by default the operation will be applied to notes of any length, in the two range value fields you can define that the note length must be in given range (MIDI units) that the operation should applied (e.g. min=0 max=5 would modify only very small notes). If the max value is missing then no max value is defined (min.. any higher value) 3.39 Mute voices [in menu Modify/Volume operations] This operation mutes a MIDI voice by one of four available methods. This is useful to remove parts that real musicians play live in a band or for muting voices that are replaced by karaoke singers. Tracks: Choose track if you want to mute all channels in a certain track or if you want to mute a certain channel only in one track. Channels: Select one or more channels that should be muted. Hint: If you select only tracks then any channels on this track are used for mute operation. Hint: If you select only channels then any tracks that contain these channels are used for mute

66 63 operation. Hint: If you select tracks and channels then only those tracks are used that contain one of the given channels. Method: Delete all events Silent (volume 0) Delete notes Silent notes (low velocity) to a low value (1) deletes all commands on the matching channels and tracks sets volume of matching channels to 0 deletes only the notes on the matching channels and tracks sets velocity values of the notes on the matching channels and tracks Hint: Silent (volume 0) method is useful if you want to sing a muted melody (karaoke) and still need the notes displayed on screen with a sequencer or a special MIDI player. Hint: Delete notes method is useful if you want to play these deleted notes self with original settings. Hint: The operation can't be undone so you need to keep your original MIDI files if you want the muted tracks back. Hint: With the option Remove all commands you can delete a channel completely Generate setup measure [in menu Modify] This operation inserts a new tact bar (measure) with optional initialization commands. GM Reset XG Reset GS Reset initialize General MIDI compatible devices initialize Yamaha XG compatible devices initialize Roland GS compatible devices Following MIDI parameters are initialized to GM default values if the parameters are not initialized before playing first note in track: volume controller: 100 balance controller: center program: Piano (except drum channel 10) pitch bend: center (no pitch bending) pitch bend range: +/-2 halftones (with RPN commands, not supported on all devices)

67 operations Show or add secret copyright [in menu Modify] This function adds encoded copyright information to the MIDI file. In cases that somebody illegally removes or changes the standard visible copyright field, the secret copyright information remains in the file hidden. The secret copyright can prove your copyright when somebody else tries to steal it. If a secret copyright (done with ) already exists then it displays the secret copyright information. If no secret copyright found, but standard copyright is available then this copyright information is added as secret copyright into the file. If no standard and no secret copyright found then program asks for a copyright line. Use only ASCII characters (characters blank - ~), other characters (like international characters e.g. ü) are not stored Set tempo (bpm and percentually) [in menu Modify/Tempo operations] This operation changes tempo of a MIDI song by two different ways. set constant tempo (beats/min) enter a number of beats per minutes (bpm) between 40 and 240 in the edit field below. All existing tempo changes in the MIDI file are removed and the new tempo change will be inserted at beginning of the song. change tempo by percentage (%) enter a percentage value between 1 and 200 in the edit field below. All existing tempo changes in the MIDI song are changed by the given percentage. A new tempo change might be inserted at beginning of the song if the song used default tempo 120 bpm at beginning of song (no tempo change at start position) edit box Enter a number in this edit box. Floating point values are allowed (e.g ). The radio options above determine the meaning of the value (bpm or %)

68 Check all MIDI files [in menu Analyse] This batch operation checks all MIDI files for being valid in specified MIDI folder. At completion a list of errors is shown and you are asked if you want that tries to repair the files. Repaired files will be opened in a document window. You need to check if the repairing is acceptable and then save the MIDI file. Checking same folder again will work quicklier, since it won't check those files again which didn't change. If you check all files in this folder again then you can delete the file with extension.chk 3.44 Create new MIDI file [in menu File] This operation creates an empty format 1 MIDI file with some initializations and one measure without notes. You can use it as start for sequencing a new song Browse MIDI folder [in menu File] The browse operations displays folder content. It displays basic MIDI file information and can be used to select one or more MIDI files at once for opening. The operation uses information that is generated by check all MIDI files operation (*.chk) to load information quicklier if the check operation was used previously. Selecting more files at once can be done with combinations of Ctrl, Shift and arrow keys. This dialog is also used by most batch operations.

69 operations Reverse MIDI song [in menu Convert] This operation mirrors position of notes within current MIDI song. This gives possibility to play a song reverse. The mirrored result can be reversed again but it might be slightly different to the original MIDI song Check midi natural instrument note ranges [in menu Analyse] The operation checks if notes played with natural sounds (e.g. trumpet, violin) are within a realistic note range. Too high or too low notes might cause to play this sound in an unrealistic way. The note range definition file for a certain device (usually the text file gm.rng which contains note ranges of some General MIDI standard instruments) will be loaded. All notes in current MIDI file are checked against the note range definitions and a warning is reported if a note is outside the range specified in the range definitions for the instrument which plays the note. The note range definition file can be modified or a new definition file defined and activated by changing gnmidi.ini file : [Settings] RangeDefinitions=myranges.rng The range definition file should be in installation folder, else a full path must be specified. When all notes are in a valid range then following message is displayed: All notes are in range (according to note range definitions) When some notes are in an invalid range then the information is displayed in a text file with notepad editor: checking note ranges according to gm.rng: track 3 channel 2 measure 3 Violin (40) note f3 range g3-c7 track 3 channel 2 measure 3 Violin (40) note e3 range g3-c7 track 3 channel 2 measure 3 Violin (40) note f3 range g3-c7 track 3 channel 2 measure 3 Violin (40) note e3 range g3-c7 track 3 channel 2 measure 4 Violin (40) note c3 range g3-c7 track 3 channel 2 measure 7 Violin (40) note f3 range g3-c7 track 3 channel 2 measure 8 Violin (40) note e3 range g3-c7 track 3 channel 2 measure 8 Violin (40) note c3 range g3-c7 track 5 channel 4 measure 98 Ovrdrive (29) note d2 range e2-d6 track 5 channel 4 measure 101 Ovrdrive (29) note g#1 range e2-d6 track 5 channel 4 measure 101 Ovrdrive (29) note b1 range e2-d6 track 5 channel 4 measure 101 Ovrdrive (29) note c#2 range e2-d6 track 5 channel 4 measure 101 Ovrdrive (29) note d#2 range e2-d6 track 5 channel 4 measure 101 Ovrdrive (29) note c#2 range e2-d6 track 5 channel 4 measure 101 Ovrdrive (29) note b1 range e2-d Remove hanging notes

70 67 [in menu Analyse] This operation checks if current MIDI file contains notes that are not stopped (a note on command is missing note off command). It considers pedal commands hold and sostenuto and all-notes-off. When such notes are found then the operation offers to stop those notes or remove those notes. Hanging notes cause that polyphony increases unnecessarily and depending on the used sound it can be heard. The notes are on till end of song, some sounds are fading out earlier so that the problem might not be noticed. Such notes are usually unwanted bugs in MIDI files Delete midi tracks [in menu Modify] This operation starts same dialog as edit track titles operation.

71 operations MIDI to ASCII Text [in menu Convert] This operation converts a MIDI file into a readable ASCII text that represents the MIDI content. You can edit this text file with a text editor (Notepad editor). The (modified) text can be converted back to a MIDI file. Here you find some information about the used grammar. Here is a part of the generated text: mthd version 1 // several tracks with separated channels to play all at once // 8 tracks unit 96 // is 1/4 end mthd mtrk // track 1 /* U0 */ /* 0ms */ /* U0 */ /* 0ms */ /* U0 */ /* 0ms */ /* U0 */ /* 0ms */ only." /* U0 */ /* 0ms */ /* U0 */ /* 0ms */ 536/4; /* U51456 */ end mtrk beats /* microsec/beat */ trackname "Gasp For Breath (G\xfcnter Nagler, )" text "This song is composed and sequenced by Günter Nagler." text "Freely distributed for personal, non-commercial use text "Contact: info@gnmidi.com" tact 4 / /* ms */ mtrk(1) // track 2 /* U0 */ /* 0ms */ trackname "More strings at Refrain" /* U0 */ /* 0ms */ program Ensmble1 /* U0 */ /* 0ms */ volume 127 /* U0 */ /* 0ms */ balance 46 /* U0 */ /* 0ms */ reverb 52 /* U0 */ /* 0ms */ chorus ; /* U7765 */ /* 34085ms */ +a4 $58; 42; /* U7807 */ /* 34269ms */ -a4 $40; 11; /* U7818 */ /* 34318ms */ +a#4 $52; 44; /* U7862 */ /* 34511ms */ -a#4 $40; 3; /* U7865 */ /* 34524ms */ +a4 $52; 47; /* U7912 */ /* 34730ms */ +g4 $4E; 5; /* U7917 */ /* 34752ms */ -a4 $40; 25; /* U7942 */ /* 34862ms */ -g4 $40; 19; /* U7961 */ /* 34945ms */ +f4 $4E; 92; /* U8053 */ /* 35349ms */ -f4 $40; 3; /* U8056 */ /* 35362ms */ +e4 $58; 94; /* U8150 */ /* 35775ms */ +c5 $52; 12; /* U8162 */ /* 35828ms */ -e4 $40; 11; /* U8173 */ /* 35876ms */ -c5 $40; 27; /* U8200 */ /* 35995ms */ +c5 $4A; 26; /* U8226 */ /* 36109ms */ -c5 $40; 26; /* U8252 */ /* 36223ms */ +a#4 $46; 35; /* U8287 */ /* 36376ms */ -a#4 $40;... end mtrk

72 ASCII Text to MIDI [in menu Convert] This operation converts a text generated by operation MIDI to ASCII text back to a MIDI file, if the text has valid syntax. The text can be modified by the user, but must not contain syntax errors that it can be converted to MIDI.

73 operations ASCII Text syntax MIDI unit position and time position are shown in comments before each command: /* U7765 */ /* 34085ms */ Comments are inside /*... */ or start with // till end of line. Pauses are shown before commands either in MIDI units ( 47; )or musical notation ( 536/4; ). MIDI notes consists of pairs of commands: Note on is displayed as + and Note off is displayed as MIDI channel are displayed in mtrk(channel number) or as [channel number] inside a track before a command. Values are shown decimal (0-127) or hexadecimal ($00 - $7F). Most commands begin with a keyword and have parameters e.g. beats text "Contact: info@gnmidi.com" program Ensmble1 Program names (of GM instruments) can be used by number or from following GM instrument list: GrandPno BritePno El.Grand HnkyTonk ElPiano1 ElPiano2 Harpsich Clavi. Celesta Glocken MusicBox Vibes Marimba Xylophon TubulBel Dulcimer DrawOrgn PercOrgn RockOrgn ChrcOrgn ReedOrgn Acordion Harmnica TangoAcd NylonGtr SteelGtr JazzGtr CleanGtr MuteGtr Ovrdrive Distortd Harmnics WoodBass FngrBass PickBass Fretless SlapBas1 SlapBas2 SynBass1 SynBass2

74 71 40 Violin Viola Cello Contra TremStrg Pizzicto Harp Timpani Ensmble1 Ensmble2 SynStrg1 SynStrg2 AahChoir OohChoir SynChoir OrchHit Trumpet Trombone Tuba MuteTrum FrenchHr BrasSect SynBras1 SynBras2 SprnoSax AltoSax TenorSax BariSax Oboe EnglHorn Bassoon Clarinet Piccolo Flute Recorder PanFlute Bottle Shakhchi Whistle Ocarina SquareLd SawLd CaliopLd ChiffLd CharanLd VoiceLd FifthLd Bass&Ld NewAgePd WarmPd PolySyPd ChoirPd BowedPd MetalPd HaloPd SweepPd Rain SoundTrk Crystal Atmosphr Bright Goblin Echoes SciFi Sitar Banjo

75 operations Shamisen 107 Koto 108 Kalimba 109 Bagpipe 110 Fiddle 111 Shanai 112 TnklBell 113 Agogo 114 StlDrum 115 WoodBlok 116 TaikoDrm 117 MelodTom 118 SynthTom 119 RevCymbl 120 FretNoiz 121 BrthNoiz 122 Seashore 123 Tweet 124 Telphone 125 Helicptr 126 Applause 127 Gunshot The names must be written exactly. The following scheme explains the syntax of MIDI ASCII text in E-BNF (Extended Backus-Naur-Form). Extended BNF rules: symbol ::= expr ; rule for symbol expr can be: expr* optional list of expr's expr+ repetition of expr's (at least 1) [expr] optional expr (0 or 1 occurrences) expr1 expr2... exprn sequence of expr1... exprn (in this order) expr1 expr2... exprn alternatives between expr1...exprn (choose one) (expr) expr itself for grouping (e.g. ("+" "-")* "mthd" "(" keywords and operators (case sensitive, use without " characters) // text comment until next line literal ::= characters enclosed in "..." e.g. "Track 1" (special characters can be escaped by preceding \ e.g. "\"" is " character itself lexical symbols (in E-BNF): digit ::= "0" "1" "2" "3" "4" "5" "6" "7" "8" "9" ; hexdigit ::= digit "A" "B" "C" "D" "E" "F" "a" "b" "c" "d" "e" "f" ; decnumber ::= digit+ ; hexnumber ::= "0" ("x" "X") hexdigit+ "$" hexdigit+ ; number ::= decnumber hexnumber ; floatnumber ::= decnumber decnumber "." decnumber ; notekey ::= "C" "D" "E" "F" "G" "A" "H" "B" "c" "d" "e" "f" "g" "a" "h" "b" ; // notekey "h" used in German language is equal to // notekey "b" notename ::= notekey ["#" "is" "b" "es"] decnumber ; // only legal notes as known in music theory are allowed // suffixes "is" and "es" are used in German language // "is" is equal to "#" // "es" is equal to "b" // exceptions rules (in German language): // As is equal to Ab // Es is equal to Eb // Use F instead of Eis // Use C instead of His // Use As instead of Aes

76 73 // Use Es instead of Ees // Use H instead of Ces // Use E instead of Fes note ::= notename number ; programname ::= // korg i2/i3 only: "Dr1" "Dr2" "Dr3" "Dr4" "Dr5" "Dr6" "Dr7" "Dr8" // new program names "GrandPno" "BritePno" "El.Grand" "HnkyTonk" "ElPiano1" "ElPiano2" "Harpsich" "Clavi." "Celesta" "Glocken" "MusicBox" "Vibes" "Marimba" "Xylophon" "TubulBel" "Dulcimer" "DrawOrgn" "PercOrgn" "RockOrgn" "ChrcOrgn" "ReedOrgn" "Acordion" "Harmnica" "TangoAcd" "NylonGtr" "SteelGtr" "JazzGtr" "CleanGtr" "MuteGtr" "Ovrdrive" "Distortd" "Harmnics" "WoodBass" "FngrBass" "PickBass" "Fretless" "SlapBas1" "SlapBas2" "SynBass1" "SynBass2" "Violin" "Viola" "Cello" "Contra" "TremStrg" "Pizzicto" "Harp" "Timpani" "Ensmble1" "Ensmble2" "SynStrg1" "SynStrg2" "AahChoir" "OohChoir" "SynChoir" "OrchHit" "Trumpet" "Trombone" "Tuba" "MuteTrum" "FrenchHr" "BrasSect" "SynBras1" "SynBras2" "SprnoSax" "AltoSax" "TenorSax" "BariSax" "Oboe" "EnglHorn" "Bassoon" "Clarinet" "Piccolo" "Flute" "Recorder" "PanFlute" "Bottle" "Shakhchi" "Whistle" "Ocarina" "SquareLd" "SawLd" "CaliopLd" "ChiffLd" "CharanLd" "VoiceLd" "FifthLd" "Bass&Ld" "NewAgePd" "WarmPd" "PolySyPd" "ChoirPd" "BowedPd" "MetalPd" "HaloPd" "SweepPd" "Rain" "SoundTrk" "Crystal" "Atmosphr" "Bright" "Goblin" "Echoes" "SciFi" "Sitar" "Banjo" "Shamisen" "Koto" "Kalimba" "Bagpipe" "Fiddle" "Shanai" "TnklBell" "Agogo" "StlDrum" "WoodBlok" "TaikoDrm" "MelodTom" "SynthTom" "RevCymbl" "FretNoiz" "BrthNoiz" "Seashore" "Tweet" "Telphone" "Helicptr" "Applause" "Gunshot" // old general MIDI programs (GM): "Piano" "BritePiano" "HammerPiano" "HonkeyTonk" "NewTines" "DigiPiano" "Harpsicord" "Clav" "Celesta" "Glocken" "MusicBox" "Vibes" "Marimba" "Xylophon" "Tubular" "Santur" "FullOrgan" "PercOrgan" "BX-3Organ" "ChurchPipe" "Positive" "Musette" "Harmonica" "Tango" "ClassicGtr" "A.Guitar" "JazzGuitar" "CleanGtr" "MuteGuitar" "OverDrive" "DistGuitar" "RockMonics" "JazzBass" "DeepBass" "PickBass" "FretLess" "SlapBass1" "SlapBass2" "SynthBass1" "SynthBass2" "Violin" "Viola" "Cello" "ContraBass" "TremoloStr" "Pizzicato" "Harp" "Timpani" "Marcato" "SlowString" "AnalogPad" "StringPad" "Choir" "DooVoice" "Voices" "OrchHit" "Trumpet" "Trombone" "Tuba" "MutedTrumpet" "FrenchHorn" "Brass" "SynBrass1" "SynBrass2" "SopranoSax" "AltoSax" "TenorSax" "BariSax" "SweetOboe" "EnglishHorn" "BasoonOboe" "Clarinet" "Piccolo" "Flute" "Recorder" "PanFlute" "Bottle" "Shakuhachi" "Whistle" "Ocarina" "SquareWave" "SawWave" "SynCalinope" "SynChiff" "Charang" "AirChorus" "Rezzo4ths" "Bass&Lead" "Fantasia" "WarmPad" "PolyPad" "GhostPad" "BowedGlas" "MetalPad" "HaloPad" "Sweep" "IceRain" "SoundTrack" "Crystal" "Atmosphere" "Brightness" "Goblin" "EchoDrop" "StarTheme" "Sitar" "Banjo" "Shamisen" "Koto" "Kalimba" "Scotland" "Fiddle" "Shanai" "MetalBell" "Agogo" "SteelDrums" "Woodblock" "Taiko" "Tom" "SynthTom" "RevCymbal" "FretNoise" "NoiseChiff" "Seashore" "Birds" "Telephone" "Helicopter" "Stadium!!" "GunShot" ; Grammar in extended BNF midifile ::= midisong ; midisong ::= songoption* midihead songoption* miditrack+ ; songoption ::= "mute" channel+ // ignore these channels "solo" channel+ // use these channels only ; channel ::= number ; // only 1-16 are valid channels // channel 10 should be used for drums midihead ::= "mthd" [version] [unit] "end" "mthd" ; version ::= "version" number // default version: 1 // currently only versions 0-2 are allowed // version 0 = single multichannel track // version 1 = some singlechannel tracks playing together // version 2 = some multichannel tracks playing one after one

77 operations unit ::= "unit" number ; // default unit: 192 miditrack ::= "mtrk" [ "(" channel ")" ] event* "end" "mtrk" ; event ::= [ "[" channel "]" ] midievent "velocyon" number // default is 127 "velocyoff" number // default is 0 duration sep // pause: delay between events "print" sep "transpose" ["+" "-"] number sep sep "copy" "part" literal ; "part" literal event* "end" "part" literal ; "loop" number event* "end" "loop" ; sep ::= ";"; midievent ::= "seqnumber" number "text" literal "copyright" literal "trackname" literal "instrument" literal "lyric" literal "prefixchannel" channel // following sysex or meta event is applied to this channel "prefixport" number // following sysex or meta event is applied to this port "smpteofs" number number ":" number ":" number ":" number ":" number // SMPTE mode hour:minute:second:frame:fractional_frame // mode 0: 24 frames/second // mode 1: 25 frames/second // mode 2: 30 frames/second allow dropping frames // mode 3: 30 frames/second no dropping allowed "tact" number "/" number number number // tactnom / (2 ^^ tactdenom) clicks/beat 32th/beat "tempo" number // microseconds per quarter note "beats" floatnumber // same as /tempo // quarter notes per minute "key" literal // literal must contain a valid key: // "Cmin" "Cmaj" "1bmin" "1bmaj"... "7bmaj"... "7#min" "7#maj" "event" // enter event bytes without change bytes // no length is added "end" "event" "metaevent" number // metaevent nr bytes // length will be automatically added "end" "metaevent" // metaevents are 0xff-codes "psrmeta" "chord" literal psrbasschord // special meta events for Yamaha PSR chords "sysevent" // sysex event (0xf0) bytes // length will be automatically added "end" "sysevent" // end sysevent code 0xf7 is appended automatically! "syshex" // sysex event (0xf0) hexbytes // length will be automatically added "eox" // end sysevent code 0xf7 is appended automatically! "gmreset" // common sysex command to set GM mode on "gsreset" // common sysex command to set GS mode on (mainly used for Roland, Yamaha) "gsenter" // same as command gsreset "gsexit" // common sysex command to set GS mode off (mainly used for Roland, Yamaha) "program" (programname number ("A" "B" "C" "D") number "control" number number "hbank" number "lbank" number 74

78 75 "banka" "bankb" "bankc" "bankd" "bankdrum" // bank*: korg i2/i3 only! "balance" ("left" "right" number) // number is a value between 0 and 127: 0 is left and 127 is right "hold" ("on" "off" number) "reverb" number "chorus" number "brightness" number "expression" number "pitchmodulation" number "wheel" number "breath" number "foot" number "portamentotime" number "portamento" number "data" number "volume" number "sustain" number "sostenuto" number "softpedal" number "datainc" number "datadec" number "highrpn" number "lowrpn" number "pitchbendrange" number "localon" "localoff" "silent" "allnotesoff" "omnioff" "omnion" "monoon" "polyon" "songpos" number "songselect" number "tunerequest" "timingclock" "start" "continue" "stop" "activesensing" "polyaftertouch" note number "aftertouch" number "pitch bend" number notename duration number sep "+" notename (number "velocyon") sep "-" notename (number "velocyoff) sep "+" number number sep // note on with velocity "-" number number sep // note off with velocity ; psrbasschord ::= // optional "basschord" literal ; duration ::= number // units as defined in header number "/" number (tact units, e.g. 3/4) ; program ::= number programname ; bytes ::= (number literal)+ ; hexsequence ::= (hexdigits literal)+ ; hexdigits ::= hexdigit+ ;

79 operations Guess song key and optionally set MIDI song key [in menu Analyse] This operation analyzes the MIDI song and suggests a song key that you can assign to the song. It chooses the song key (number of # or b, major or minor) that will produce minimum number of #, b exceptions on a score sheet. Change the selected key if you want to set an other key. Answering yes will write the song key information (META event) into the MIDI file. Hint: A song could be printed on score sheet with any key, with a bad key choice the number of necessary exception symbols (#, b) within the measures might be high and the scores might be difficult to read Show original MIDI song keys [in menu Analyse] This operation analyzes the MIDI file and writes a list of used key settings into a text file that is shown with notepad text browser. The song position (MIDI unit) is shown where the key is changed, and key name meaning is explained by the number of # or b on a score sheet. e.g. key C Major has no #, key Am has no b, key D Major has two #, key Bm has 2 b. Default key is C, if it is not set within song. MIDI : Song key C (0 #)

80 MIDI time calculator (calculate position, time, tact, tempo within a song) [in menu Analyse] The MIDI calculator does position calculations for current MIDI song between different position formats. Enter a position in one of the 4 different position fields (in correct format for the field) and it automatically calculates corresponding positions in the other formats and shows meter and tempo info at this position. MIDI unit number, exact position within a MIDI file (0=start of song) Beat Number of quarter notes since start of song, and remaining MIDI units within the beat (starts at 1.000) Time Time position since start of song (minutes:seconds.milliseconds) Measure Bar position (measures.beat.unit) starts at Tact meter info, length of the measure at given position (nominator/denominator) e.g. 4/4, 3/4, 6/8..., this information can't be modified here Tempo tempo (bpm, beats per minute e.g ), this information can't be modified here

81 operations Player status information [in menu Player] The player status dialog can be displayed while playing a MIDI song with internal player. It contains information about the playing position and has button controls to navigate the player. Filename path of the currently played MIDI file Play time current play (or pause) time position (in minutes:seconds.milliseconds). While the player is paused it is allowed to enter a new play time position into the edit field. After short pause the song plays from the position if the entered value is a valid play time. Possible inputs are: 120 (second), 1:30 (minute:second), 3: (minute:second:millisecond) MIDI unit current MIDI position (in MIDI units). While the MIDI player is paused it is allowed to enter a new play unit position (a number) into the edit field. After short time the song plays from the unit position if it was a valid unit number within song. Tempo current MIDI tempo (in bpm) Tact current measure length (in nominator/denominator) Measure:Beat current MIDI song position (measure number, beat number) e.g. counts 23:1, 23:2, 23:3, 23:4 in a 4/4 measure. While the player is paused it is allowed to enter a new MIDI song position into the edit field. After short time the song plays from the song position if it is a valid position within the song. Possible inputs are: 47 (measure number counting beginning from 1), 23:3 (measure number and beat number counting from 1). Hint: In a 4/4 measure the beats within the measure are 1,2,3,4. Beat 5 belongs to next measure and therefore 23:5 is same as 24:1 Hint: 1:100 is the 100th beat within the song (independent of the measures). Markers

82 79 the drop down box contains marker text found in the MIDI file which are sorted by time. During playing the marker directly before current playing position will be displayed. After selecting a marker from the box the player jumps to the marker position in the song. Markers usually define beginnings of sections (e.g. intro, refrain, verse) or notices to positions in the song (e.g. contra point, scalar transposition...). Stop stops playing the song Play starts or continues to play current song Pause pauses current song Backward jumps to position 30 seconds before current position Position slider the slider shows current song playing position relative to song duration. The duration between the position markers is 30 seconds. You can drag the thumb by clicking left mouse button on the thumb and move the mouse. The player will jump to the position where the mouse button is released. Forward jumps to position 30 seconds after current position 3.57 Insert Marker This operation is only available while a MIDI song is played and the player is currently paused. Use the MIDI Player Status dialog to move current play position to a location where you want to add a marker (e.g. intro, refrain, verse, scale transposition...). Use the pause operation then start the insert marker operation. to hold this position and A dialog opens where you can enter a text that describes the mark (single line). Then use OK button to write the marker into the current active MIDI song (be sure that the correct MIDI file is active if more files are open). The new marker will be known to the player only when you play the new result MIDI file. Abort the dialog using cancel if no modifications are wanted.

83 operations Find text in MIDI and MP3 files [in menu Analyse] This operation searches text in MIDI or MP3 files in a chosen folder and all music files in the sub folders. First search might take long time, information will be collected for future searches. Additional searches in this folder will be quicklier. The search optimization only works with not write protected folders. generates a file gnmidtxt.fnd in each not write protected folder. The matching filenames are written into a text file that will be shown with notepad editor. MP3 information: the word is searched in filename (often contains artist and song title) and MP3 ID3 tag fields Set programs and banks (with sound check) [in menu Modify/Sound operations as set sound program] This operation shows initial sound program addresses for each channel and lets assign new sound programs. The operation removes all program and bank settings of channels that were modified in this dialog and inserts the new settings before first note starts to play. Channel Select a channel to inspect the currently assigned sound program for this channel. Program Select a sound program number between 0 and 127. The GM instrument names are displayed in the list. Some device manuals count the program number from (in this case you need to subtract 1 for entering the value here). Bank MSB and Bank LSB

84 81 Use bank changes to access more than 128 programs on your sound device (both values are required, use 0 if the manual does not specify one of the values). Hint: When you change a program or bank parameter the info is remembered for all 16 channels till you exit the dialog. Hint: Your device manual contains a table of available sounds and their values. General MIDI has only 128 GM Programs and a GM standard drum kit (channel 10). Some manuals show the parameters in hexadecimal numbers, here is a table to convert the hex numbers to decimal numbers for 0-127: 00-> 01-> 02-> 03-> 04-> 05-> 06-> 07-> 08-> 09-> 0A-> 0B-> 0C-> 0D-> 0E-> 0F-> > 11-> 12-> 13-> 14-> 15-> 16-> 17-> 18-> 19-> 1A-> 1B-> 1C-> 1D-> 1E-> 1F-> > 21-> 22-> 23-> 24-> 25-> 26-> 27-> 28-> 29-> 2A-> 2B-> 2C-> 2D-> 2E-> 2F-> > 31-> 32-> 33-> 34-> 35-> 36-> 37-> 38-> 39-> 3A-> 3B-> 3C-> 3D-> 3E-> 3F-> > 41-> 42-> 43-> 44-> 45-> 46-> 47-> 48-> 49-> 4A-> 4B-> 4C-> 4D-> 4E-> 4F-> > 51-> 52-> 53-> 54-> 55-> 56-> 57-> 58-> 59-> 5A-> 5B-> 5C-> 5D-> 5E-> 5F-> > > > > > > > > > >105 6A->106 6B->107 6C->108 6D->109 6E->110 6F-> > > > > > > > > > >121 7A->122 7B->123 7C->124 7D->125 7E->126 7F->127 Test test the chosen sound before you assign it to the song press test button, this plays a small arpeggio of notes with current selected sound through internal MIDI player (any song currently playing will be stopped). This is useful if your destination device is connected to your computer (e.g. sound card, soft synthesizer, keyboard with MIDI cable). The test melody MIDI file can be replaced by any other MIDI file that plays notes on channel 1. Set following setting in your gnmidi.ini file if you want to use an other MIDI file: [Settings] MidiProgTest=c:\gnmidi\mytest.mid Hint: Drum programs can not be tested with the test button.

85 operations Prepare MIDI file for PianoDisc [in menu Modify/Sound operations] PianoDisc modules let a piano play the keys self ("ghost player"). MIDI files control the playing of a piano song. This operation converts the current MIDI song to format 0 and assigns a special piano sound to the selected channels that forces the PianoDisc to play the piano keys. Hint: The song should only play at channel 1 (use map channels or mute channels). Channels select one or more channels (default all) where the piano sound will be assigned ASCII only it seems that some older PianoDisc versions don't load MIDI files that contain international characters. This option replaces non-ascii characters. Sound address this operation assigns sound address Program 0 (piano) MSB=5 LSB=87 in selected channels by default. This address can be adjusted in file gnmidi.ini using following setting line: [Settings] Pianodisc= You can find the address numbers in your device manual.

86 Cripple notes [in menu Modify/Note operations] This operation encrypts the notes of the MIDI song. This is useful for making MIDI file unusable for printing or editing. The operation can't be reversed. Two different methods are available: Chaos Encoder creates a little chaos in the song, the commands are moved into random tracks which causes bad printings but still plays correctly. Pitch Encoder changes notes by random half tones and uses pitch bending to put them back to pitch. Hint: Check carefully if the song plays identically after cripple operation, since the operation applies changes to the notes and pitch bending.

87 operations Song description This operation displays or adds additional info to the current MIDI or MP3 file. The description to the file will be stored outside of the MIDI/MP3 file. Some of this information will be displayed in the MIDI document window. Some of the fields can be searched. Some field values are used by the entertainment player. Filename Path and name of the song file Artist composer or singer of the song Title song title Evaluation Rate the song by one of the attributes in the list. Rating values are considered by Entertainment player. Melody Channel If you know which channel plays the melody notes then you can set this info here or unknown if you don't know or don't need it. The information is required by operation Mute Melody. Hint: Melody channel is not used for MP3 files. Song Transpose enter a transpose value ( ) e.g. if you use a score sheet with the song notes in other key. Operation Mute Melody transposes the song by given value. -- no transpose -- if transposing is not necessary or not wanted. Hint: MP3 songs are not transposed before playing.

88 85 Music Style select a music style category from the list of categories for a song. The list of styles is read from file gnstyles.ini in your gnmidi directory, it will be created once you start. You can add categories self to this text file or choose unknown for all that have a category that is not existing in the list. Comment enter own commentary text to the song 3.63 Adjust volume to common level before playing midi song (optional) This MIDI player setting Common volume can be turned on or off by checking or unchecking the menu item. Adjusting volume level is done by changing volume and expression controllers percentually up or down so that the song maximum volume level is close to common volume level. It does not change note velocities because that could influence the sound. If the songs are generally too loud or too silent after adjusting to common level then you should adjust your speaker volume or keyboard main volume slider. In some cases it is not possible to reach a level close to common level, e.g. if one channel already has maximum level then it can't be increased further. Default common volume level is , this value is written into gnmidi.ini file: [Settings] MidiAdjustVolume=1 MidiCommonVolume= If you want change this value then use only values between and , values lower or higher lead to extreme use of volume changes which might cause bad arrangement. If the setting is checked then it is turned on and starting MIDI player (play or play extern) will produce a temporary MIDI file for playing that has adjusted volume. In some cases volume is already at limit and can't be adjusted to the wanted level (e.g. if expression controls or note velocities prevent from getting higher volume) Set all MIDI to common volume level This batch operation applies same function all MIDI files in specified MIDI folder that option common volume does to current MIDI song.

89 operations Entertainment player [in menu Player] The Entertainment music player chooses MIDI and MP3 files from your song archive and plays them (e.g. in random order) one after one. The operation offers search criteria's to restrict the entertainment to certain songs from your archive. MIDI/MP3 Archive select your previous used song archive folder from the drop down list box or use browse button to add a new song folder. Only MIDI or MP3 songs from this folder or its sub folders are considered for entertainment. Keywords enter one or more simple words (separated by spaces), all keywords must appear somewhere in the MIDI/MP3 file text if the keyword field is not empty. The words might match filename, author, title, comment, lyrics, tracknames, markers, copyright,... Wildcards * and? are allowed as search patterns (reduces search speed). Evaluation: each song can be rated, these values are considered here. Select between not evaluated considers songs that have no rating best considers songs that have good rating other considers songs that have bad rating Play Frequency every time when a song is played with the Entertainment player, a frequency counter will be increased for a song. Select between never played considers songs that were never played with Entertainment player often considers songs that were often played with Entertainment player sometimes considers songs that were not often played with Entertainment player (but at least once) Order

90 87 the Entertainment player supports two playing orders sequential plays the songs in the order of a play list or as they match the search criteria's random plays the songs from the play list or song archive folder in random order Load Playlist instead of considering whole song archive folder you can load the list of filenames from a text file. Each line of the play list file should contain one filename (including folder path). The play list files should have file extension.lst. Filenames that are not found (e.g. because of wrong spelling) are ignored. When a play list is loaded then the search fields are disabled, all valid MIDI/MP3 files in the play list are considered by the Entertainment player. e.g. winner.lst c:\midi\abba\thewinnertakesitall.mid c:\midi\queen\wearethechampions.mid c:\mp3\hot chocolate\everyone 's a winner.mp3 OK with OK the entertainment player starts to search for matching songs in your song file archive, depending on the number of songs in the archive it can take some time. The Entertainment player starts to play a song (with internal player) when at least one matching song is found and it will continue to search for more songs in background while playing a song. The dialog hides automatically when first matching song is found. When a song finishes to play or when you stop the internal player manually, the next matching song in selected order will be started automatically soon. Stop entertainment player Click on the entertainment player symbol or press Ctrl-A to stop the Entertainment playing. Hint: While a dialog is open (e.g. status, description...) the entertainment player does not continue automatically with next song. Close the dialog to continue. Hint: Entertainment player uses internal player which requires working installation of MIDI/MP3 MCI drivers Delete duplicate notes [in menu Modify/Note operations] This operation removes notes that are duplicated in a MIDI song. The duplicate notes must be at same MIDI position (or less than 3 MIDI units away from this position) and must have same channel and note number. If no duplicate notes are found then no result is generated and a message is displayed is status bar.

91 operations Print Lyrics [in menu File] Karaoke songs usually contain song text inside the MIDI file. This operation prints the song text and song title and song author. Title enter the song title Author enter the song author or composer Printer choose printer and modify printer settings Pause/Continue MIDI Player commands [in menu Player] While a song is played by internal MIDI player you can use this command to pause the song. Use it again to continue to play the song. In player status dialog a button exists for pause command. After pressing pause the symbol changes to a play command (continue) 3.69 Backward/Forward MIDI Player commands [in menu Player] While a song is played by internal MIDI player this operations are available. Backward continues to play 30 seconds before current song position Forward continues to play 30 seconds later after current song position Both commands are available in player status dialog.

92 Mute Melody [in menu Modify/Volume operations] This operation removes the notes from melody channel. That is useful for karaoke purpose or to play the melody self on a MIDI keyboard along to the remaining song accompaniment. First you need to define the MIDI melody channel of the song once in the MIDI descriptions of the file. This operation automatically starts the description dialog if the melody channel is not set. The description dialog offers also to define a transpose value for the MIDI file. This is useful when your score sheet contains the notes in other song key and the notes (except drums) will be automatically transposed to same song key when applying this operation Select a Midi Input [in menu Settings] Select a MIDI input device from the given list of input devices that is used for recording MIDI song or recording sysex dump data.

93 operations MIDI Recorder [in menu Player] This operation records MIDI data from an external MIDI device through MIDI cable and stores it as a standard MIDI file. Demo program version only allows to record 20 seconds and then automatically stops recording. Tempo select song tempo (bpm=quarter notes/minute). The resulting MIDI file will have this constant tempo when recording using input method Live (independent which tempo you are playing). Resolution select song resolution (MIDI units per quarter note) for the resulting MIDI song. Input device select the input device in menu Settings. This field shows the current selected device name. Input method Live real time (milliseconds) is used to record. The song will have constant tempo. This works even in MIDI modes that don't send MIDI clock signals. Synchronized to MIDI clock device must send 24 MIDI clock commands (F8) per beat. Tempo changes are guessed from speed of the clock commands. Delayed useful for devices that can't produce MIDI data in real time (e.g. analyzing tools) and send them delayed. This method works well with e.g. Autoscore pitch-to-midi software. MIDI data receiving indicator * While *** Recording *** at the right side a star * will blink which indicates that MIDI clock or active sense commands are received, which are important because that means that MIDI connection works. Start Start recording a song from MIDI cable input Stop Stop the MIDI recording. A dialog will tell if MIDI data was received that could be saved.

94 91 Save Generate a MIDI song from the recorded input data. This will open a temporary MIDI document window. Don't forget to save this document to a MIDI file. Important: It is necessary that the Windows MIDI device driver is correctly installed and working, that data can be recorded successfully. Some keyboards or synthesizers send MIDI data only in certain mode (e.g. song mode) or need keyboard settings to enable sending of MIDI data. Some keyboards you need to force to send initialization settings (sounds, volume...) through MIDI cable, by pressing e.g. reset button, changing mode or similar Split notes into lower and upper half at splitpoint (left and right hand) [in menu Modify/Note operations] This command splits a channel at a given splitting point note into lower track (left hand) and upper track (right hand). You can optionally assign new MIDI channels to both parts so that both parts can play with different sounds. Tracks optionally select a track number only if the channel number is used in two different tracks and you want to split only one of them. Channel select a channel number that contains notes for left and right hand Key a note number where to split the selected channel into two parts. Middle piano C is called C5 in this list. The key note and higher notes belong to the upper part (right hand), the notes that are lower than key note belong to the lower part (left hand). Upper channel channel number of upper part (right hand) Balance (u.c.) Balance of the upper part (right Hand), 0 is center, -64 is full left, 63 is full right

95 operations 92 Lower channel channel number of lower part (left hand) Balance (l.c.) Balance of the lower part (left Hand), 0 is center, -64 is full left, 63 is full right Hint: Middle C (piano-c) is named here as C5. Elder versions (till 2.49) called this note C4. If you prefer to use old octave numbering then you could add following setting into.ini: [Settings] MidiMiddleOctave=4 Hint: Balance (also called Pan/panning) defines relation between left and right stereo output Edit Text [in menu Modify] This command is used to modify text commands and their position. Select a MIDI word type in first dialog and continue with OK Text can be karaoke song text (.kar) or other text Lyric contains song text Marker can be word markers for song positions or additional text Tracktitle title of track, title of first track is usually used for song title Instrument name of used instruments or sounds

96 93 Cuepoint name or description of a song position, e.g. refrain Hint: MIDI information window contains at end of the information (you probably need to scroll the window down) contains all text of different types. List box content each list item shows Track number Word track that contains this text command MIDI position (MIDI unit) text stored by this text command Track /And Hint: use the scroll bar to find more lines with text commands Edit modify the text (syllable or word or sentence) or the MIDI unit position. Use <line> and <paragraph> keywords to specify a line break or paragraph break. In.kar files the lines and paragraphs must be formatted according to.kar rules. Insert create a new text item before current selected text item, or modify the suggested MIDI unit position to insert the item at certain MIDI position. Append create a new text item behind last text item, or at given MIDI unit position. Delete remove current selected text item Undo undo previous change Hint: This operation does not support editing of Yamaha XF, Roland sysex video lyrics, Farfisa sysex lyrics. Hint: For entering and synchronizing song text you should use Karaoke editor and Synchronization editor. Hint: A text item may contain a syllable, a word or a text line. Hint: Track number (1-255) must reference an existing track in MIDI file, otherwise the text will not be inserted. <line> set word to line break <paragraph> set word to paragraph break Hint:.kar format uses \syllable for starting a new paragraph and /syllable for starting a new line

97 operations Tip of the day [in menu Help] This dialog shows short articles about operations or interesting features. At startup of a tip of the day might be shown. It can be activated in help menu. Show tips at startup If it should not start automatically at each session, you can deactivate this feature in the tip of the day dialog by unchecking the option. Next Tip show next article. Close exit this dialog (also <Esc> key closes dialog) MIDI melody to mobile phone ring tones (RTTTL) [in menu Convert] Some mobile phones can be loaded with RTTTL ring tones. This function converts a MIDI melody channel to ring tone format. Melody channel: Choose the channel that should be converted. The channel must contain notes (should be mono

98 95 phon) that the conversion can be done successfully. Result is a text file that contains the melody notes in RTTTL format. Hint: the melody notes should not overlap because RTTTL ring tones are mono phon only. Hint: Some mobile phones might limit the length of the RTTTL, so choose a small part of the song. E.g. a small part of a song converted to RTTTL: Eternity:d=4,o=5,b=78:16p,16d.,32p,32f,32p,8f.,8d,32f,32p,8f.,a.,g.,2p,16g.,32p,32a#,32p,8a#.,8g,8a#,8g,16p,c.,2p,p,16p,16d.,32p,16p,8f.,8d,8f,16d.,32p,a. The result text also offers keystrokes for entering the melody into a Nokia 3310/3300 cell phone RTTTL to MIDI song [in menu Convert] This operation converts an RTTTL file loaded into a document window into a MIDI file. The MIDI song will contain mono phone melody, program Vibes is assigned to the MIDI channel MIDI to parsons code conversion [in menu Convert] Parsons code describes the contour changes of a mono phon melody by simple character symbols. With parsons code it is possible to identify melody by inexact tone height changes, it does not require a precise interpretation of notes, duration and transposition. The result will be written into a new text edit window (Notepad). Longer melodies might create long parsons code. Longer pauses between melody notes will break the parsons code and a new parsons code will start with * in a new line. Melody channel: Choose a melody channel that contains the melody notes, which should be converted. This channel must contains melody notes (and should be mono phon, because Parsons code only supports mono phon melodies), that it can be converted to parsons code. Short note overlappings will be corrected automatically. If the channel contains long note overlappings this could infect the results unwanted.

99 operations 96 Parsons code format: Parsons code of a melody usually begins with a * symbol, that is the placeholder for any start tone height. Following tone changes are allowed and will be described by following characters: D (Down) tone height will be lower relative to the previous tone U (Up) tone height will be higher relative to the previous tone R (Repeat) last tone height will be repeated Example: *DUDUDUDDDUUUDUUU that is the Parsons code of main melody Beethoven "Per Elise" which was produced from the notes E D# E D# E B D C A, C E A B, E G# B C. provides a search engine for melody searching using parsons code. Above example was found in classic range at first place. When searching in all music ranges "Per Elise" was found at 3rd place, there are other melodies (z.b. Rolling Stones) that produce similar parsons code. It does not mean that the melodies are identical. A conversion from Parsons code back to MIDI can not be done unique, because Parsons code does not contain notes or durations MIDI settings landscape view [in menu Analyse] The MIDI settings map displays the parameter values used within the MIDI song. Loading this info can take some time. The coloured table has 16 rows for channels and one extra row for song lyrics. The columns are divided into measures by grey vertical lines. The distance is depending on the current zoom state. Some measures have a number above the line which is the MIDI unit position of this bar line.

100 97 The smaller black blocks inside the rows are the positions were notes are playing. The colour is brighter if the notes are not pressed so hard (note velocity value). The row background colours are different for each row. The colour intensity increases with the control value (e.g. volume 0-127). Move mouse cursor over coloured areas to show the value below in the grey info field. Use the scroll bar arrows to show the parts that are currently outside of screen. Parameters: Program (Sound) Tempo Volume Expression Balance Chorus Reverb Zoom: choose a zoom percentage value to check out a smaller range of MIDI units in more detail or a larger range of MIDI units in less detail. Play ( > ) The grey button on right bottom plays song beginning at current map position Count-In 1,2,3,4 [in menu Modify/Tempo operations as count-in tempo] This operation adds some drum notes to count in the beats of initial song tempo. If first song measure contains notes then an empty measure will be added in front of the song, else the drum notes are written into first measure. Hint: It is important that the meter information of the MIDI file is correct, so that the beginning of the first measure is at start of song (MIDI unit 0). Wrong initial measure position will result in a wrong count-in Remove Count-in notes [in menu Modify/Tempo operations] count-in notes will be identified if: at least 3 identical drum notes on channel 10 are played in similar distances the first other drum note or an other note on an other channel starts to play later all count-in notes must be played monophon sequentially The this operation is available in menu modify/tempo operations and removes these notes. Pauses are not removed.

101 operations Insert empty measure [in menu Modify] This operation inserts a new empty measure. Measure Measure number of the new measure, existing measures behind this number will be moved back. First measure has number 1. Measure length use meter info from previous measure as the measure before new meter info (nominator / denominator) 6/8...) 3.83 the new measure will have the same length the new measure will get a new length (e.g. 4/4, 3/4, Initialize GM/GS/XG/GM2 mode [in menu Convert] This operation adds an initialization MIDI command (MIDI RESET) to beginning current MIDI song. For GM initialization it adds GM MIDI Reset Sysex and removes GM incompatible MIDI commands (e.g. sound bank references, sysex commands).

102 Optional MIDI compression during save operation [in menu Settings] Most MIDI players, keyboards, software, sound cards support this kind of MIDI compression. MIDI Compression does not change the musical content, it still produces valid standard MIDI files, but reduces MIDI file size (up to 15% smaller). Most files that are found in Internet or sold by music companies are compressed. Usually this option should be checked (ON), since it only uses capabilities that MIDI standard suggests. Turn this operation off when your MIDI device does not accept format 0 MIDI files that are compressed. Some older Yamaha keyboards seem not to support compression and reject valid MIDI format 0 files at loading Keystrokes for Nokia 3310/3330 mobile phone tone editor Nokia phone model 3330 includes a ring tone editor where a new ring tone melody can be edited by pressing the phone keys. MIDI to RTTTL ring tone conversion creates this info and displays the keystrokes in the window. Start the tone editor on your Nokia 3310 or 3330 for entering a new melody. Be sure that the current octave and note length are initialized. enter 1 that should show 4c1 on display enter <c> to remove the 4c1 from display (if not then use keys 8,9,*) Hint: Enter the digits, *,# exactly as displayed in the document window (don't miss one, each is important to create correct melody). Hint: The melody input on the phone might be limited (e.g. 50 notes). Hint: It can't be guaranteed that the keystrokes are working with all mobile phones of these types (version or country depending differences can cause it to fail).

103 operations MIDI command filter [in menu Modify/Controller operations as MIDI filter commands] This operation removes MIDI commands (also called MIDI events) of chosen types. It can also change international text characters contained in text commands into ASCII text characters. META commands Text Copyright (this is disabled, the operation does not allow to remove existing copyright information) Trackname Instrument Lyric Marker Cue point Prefix Port Prefix Channel Meter (bar length info) Key (song key) Tempo Hint: Turn on META check box that you can select META command types Sysex commands remove all sysex commands when checked (check META option that this check box can be used) Channel depending commands Notes Aftertouch Controller changes select controller command numbers in right side list box Program changes Polyaftertouch Pitchbend

104 101 Channels select one or more channel numbers, only those channel depending commands that match a selected channel will be removed Controller change commands Check box Controller changes must be selected first, then select one or more controller numbers that will be removed for selected channel numbers ASCII text only all non-ascii text characters (e.g. international characters like è, ü, ß...) are replaced against ASCII characters. This is useful if a MIDI device can't display international characters Seek long pauses in song [in menu Analyse] The operation searches for positions within song that don't play a note for at least 5 seconds. The result is written to a text file and displayed by notepad editor. This operation useful when you record several songs at once with pauses between and then want to know where each part starts. c:\mysong.mid: 0:04: large pause found: 0:00: :08: ** end song Time position and pause durations are displayed in format h:mm:ss.ms (hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds). The 5 seconds period can be changed with following setting in gnmidi.ini file: [Settings] LongPauseSeconds=7

105 operations Seek parts with notes [in menu Analyse] The operation searches groups of notes in all channels that are splitted into parts by longer pauses (minimum 5 seconds). The result is opened in a notepad editor and contains for each channel that contains notes a list of times where notes play: starttime-endtime (duration) The time format is minutes:seconds:milliseconds. example for an output: channel 1: 0: : (3:13.831) channel 2: 0: : (3:14.434) channel 3: 0: : (0:06.693) 1: : (0:00.620) 1: : (0:36.094) channel 4: 0: : (1:29.609) 2: : (0:52.451) channel 5: 2: : (0:14.063) 2: : (0:21.563) channel 6: 0: : (3:07.266) channel 7: 0: : (3:07.188) channel 8: 0: : (3:13.497) channel 9: 0: : : : : : : : : : (0:04.447) (0:38.197) (0:38.197) (0:38.197) (0:40.876) channel 10: 0: : (3:10.373) The 5 seconds period can be changed with following setting in gnmidi.ini file: [Settings] LongPauseSeconds=7

106 Show tempo changes [in menu Analyse] The operation collects all tempo changes within current MIDI song. Time position are displayed in format h:mm:ss.ms and tempo is displayed in beats per minute (bpm). The information is written to a temporary text file and displayed with notepad editor. c:\mysong.mid: 0:00: default tempo: :00: tempo: :00: tempo: :04: tempo: :04: tempo: :08: ** end song 3.90 Show text positions [in menu Analyse] The operation collects all text commands within current MIDI song and displays them with text position (h:mm:ss.ms) and type name. Type names: Text Copyright Trackname Instrument Lyric Marker Cue point The information is written to a text file and displayed with Notepad editor. 0:00: Trackname "Eternity" 0:00: Trackname "Soft karaoke" 0:00: Text "@KMIDI KARAOKE FILE" 0:00: Trackname "Words" 0:00: Text "@LENGL" 0:00: Text "@Teternity" 0:00: Text "@Trobbie williams" 0:00: Text "\CLOSE" 0:00: Text " YOUR" 0:00: Text " EYES" 3.91 Quantize pedal controllers to on/off [in menu Modify/Controller operations] This operation modifies pedal controllers hold (controller #64) and soft pedal (#67). It maps lower controller values to pedal OFF and higher values to pedal ON OFF ON

107 operations 104 Hint: Duplicated values are removed to reduce the number of pedal controller changes. Hint: This operation is useful for PianoDisc and Disklavier players which may react with noises when many pedal controllers are used that are not pedal ON/OFF values Set MIDI tempo without changing timing [in menu Modify/Tempo operations] This operation replaces all tempo changes in the song by a constant tempo but keeps the original song speed by adjusting all pauses (instead of setting tempo commands). Tempo Enter a tempo (bpm, beats per minute) value into the edit field. Hint: This operation is useful if your song plays in correct tempo but you would prefer that it uses an other tempo value and song still plays with same speed Modify controller values by expressions [in menu Modify/Controller operations] The operation modifies controller values by expression rules.

108 105 Controllers Choose a controller number that should be modified Expression rules displays current expression rules that are applied in this order. Clear all remove all expressions. Load load previously saved expressions from a.ctr text file. Save save current expressions in a.ctr text file. Add new expression fill original value range and result value range and then press Add to add the expression to the expression rules list. At least one controller expression must be added that the operation can be done. The button is disabled till valid numbers are entered into the range value fields. Original value range enter values between 0 and 127 that the controller should have in original MIDI song that the values are modified by this expression. Values outside the given range are not modified by this expression. Value in first field must be smaller or equal to second field value. Result value range enter values between 0 and 127. Leave second value field empty if you want to set all original range values to same value. Here the values in first field can be higher than value in second field (for increasing the lower values and decreasing the higher values). Possible expressions set result value to a constant value fill only the left field of the result value field/range, left the right field empty (e.g. set all values between 0 and 63 to value 0) add value to the original values enter values in result fields that differ to the original range values by the given value (e.g. add value 10 to all values between 0 and 63: 10-73) interpolation of value range enter values in both result fields, the result range width can be different to original range width (e.g. interpolate values 0-63 linear to 0-127). Hint: The result values can also be entered reverse then the value ranges are interpolated reverse (e.g. set values to 127-0) Hint: the channels list and load and save buttons are available since version 2.58, before all channels were modified. Hint: This operation can be started as batch operation.

109 operations Generate tempo slide [in menu Modify/Tempo operations] This operation sets a series of tempo changes (increasing or decreasing) for a certain time range. This is used to increase or decrease tempo linear between two song positions. Start time position start time (in seconds) from beginning of the song (e.g. 10.7) End time position end time (in seconds) from beginning of song (e.g. 30.0) Tempo at start position current song tempo at start position (a hint) Tempo at end position current song tempo at end position (a hint) New start tempo tempo at start position in beats per minute (e.g. 98.0) New end tempo tempo at end position in beats per minute (e.g ) Step units distance between two tempo changes in MIDI units Hint: Start time position must be lower than end time position. Hint: Start tempo and end tempo must be in range bpm. Hint: If start tempo is smaller than end tempo then tempo will slowly increase Hint: If end tempo is smaller than start tempo then tempo will slowly decrease. Hint: If start tempo is same as end tempo then only one tempo change will be added and existing tempo changes in given range will be removed.

110 107 Number of generated tempo changes After all required fields are entered the message below the edit fields appears which tells how many tempo changes would be generated using current settings. Hint: Be sure that the number of tempo changes is not too high, because this could produce big MIDI file size and could be a problem for some MIDI players. If the number is too high then choose higher step units value till the number is acceptable Sysex Transfer [in menu Player] This dialog is used for sending and receiving sysex data dumps between computer and external MIDI devices (keyboard, sound modules...) and reverse through MIDI cable. It has comfortable features like describing a MIDI sysex command or assign a sysex command (or sysex file) to a button to quickly send the data by a click. Hint: key combination Alt+X opens this dialog. Input device displays the current selected MIDI input device name. It can be changed in menu Settings. The number behind the name tells the number of bytes received. Output device displays the current selected MIDI output device name. It can be changed in menu Settings. The number behind the name tells the number of bytes sent. Receiving box The list box in the Receive sysex dump group contains information about incoming sysex data (one line per sysex command). Clear deletes the content of the receiving box. Resets the number of transferred data back to 0.

111 operations 108 save.syx file saves all selected sysex data lines of the receiving box into a binary sysex data file (.syx). save.dmp file saves all selected sysex data lines of the receiving box into a readable and editable sysex data text file (.dmp). The.dmp file contains hexadecimal values. describe... select a received sysex data line of the receiving box and describe the meaning of the sysex data. Few data bytes from beginning of the sysex command are used to recognize the meaning of a sysex in future when receiving a similar sysex again e.g. receiving song data dump... MIDI clock displays a star symbol in the rectangle box when receiving MIDI data. It should blink when the MIDI connection is working. Send sysex edit field enter a short hexadecimal sysex command or a filename of a predefined.syx or.dmp file to send the data using send button send sends data entered in the send sysex edit field (left side of the button). send file... choose a.syx or.dmp file that will be sent choose sysex item this combo box contains user defined sysex elements that will be sent when the item is selected. The combo box contains also possibility to define a new sysex element self. define sysex item user defined sysex elements can be named and assigned to a button or chosen from sysex item combo box. A dialog is opened where the new sysex element can be defined. sysex element buttons some space in the dialog is reserved for your own buttons that send certain sysex commands. The buttons show the name of the sysex element in the caption. Two buttons are already defined (Identify, GM Reset). They can be removed in file sendsyx.txt and replaced using define sysex item if wanted. Sysex messages a sysex message (system exclusive message) starts with F0 (SOX) then follow data bytes of range and at end the sysex is terminated by F7 (EOX). Short sysex messages are used to transfer simple commands with some parameters. Large sysex messages are used to transfer songs or data dumps (which store the current settings of a device). Since the transferred data are only 7bit values, transferred data is usually encoded.

112 109 Send hexadecimal sysex message enter a sysex command in hexadecimal representation. That is the usual form used in device manuals to list all supported MIDI sysex commands. Press send button or Enter or Return key to send the data to the output device if it is a valid sysex message F0... F7. It does not care if the hexadecimal characters are written in lower or upper case. e.g. some KORG models accept following identify command f0 7e f7 If the hexadecimal sysex string is not valid then the dialog will beep and select the part of the string that looks wrong. After correct sending the connected device might respond or perform some action. After sending the data will wait certain delay time to give the device enough time to handle the transferred data. The delay can be modified in gnmidi.ini file by following setting: [Settings] SendSyxDelay=5000 Hint: If you are sure that the command is done and the device doesn't need more time then you could abort the delay by pressing <Esc> key. Send sysex file (.syx) sysex files (with file extension.syx) contain one or more sysex commands. The files can be huge (e.g. dump of all keyboard songs, all keyboard settings). Press button send file and choose a valid.syx file to send all valid sysex commands in this file to the output device. Or enter the full path of the sysex file into the sysex edit field and press send button. If the file exists and contains valid sysex data then it will be transferred. After sending each sysex the program will wait certain delay to give the device enough time to handle the data. Send readable sysex file (.dmp).dmp file contains hexadecimal formatted sysex data lines. The lines look like: 00000: F E 06 F7 The hexadecimal number before the sysex data bytes (including the colon) is optional, specifying only F E 06 F7 in a.dmp file is allowed). stores the current byte position of a corresponding.syx file in this offset number when saving sysex data to a.dmp file. You can change the.dmp file without need for updating the offset values, the values are not used at reading a.dmp file. Optionally a! character can be used to append a comment to a line. F E 06 F7! GM Reset The comment is not part of the sysex data. inserts such comment for each known sysex. E.g : F E 06 F7! KORG i30 change to song mode Maximum line length is 1024 characters in a.dmp file. Insert line breaks between data values that the lines are short (which is easier for reading and editing). writes 16 data bytes per line. When the.dmp file contains invalid formatted line then the sending will not be performed and an error message tells which line contains the problem. After sending the data from.dmp file the program will wait certain delay after each sysex command to give the device enough time to handle the data.

113 operations 110 Define own sysex data items Often used sysex commands can be stored as sysex items. They can be sent comfortably by selecting a list box item or pressing a self defined button. The second item in the send sysex combo drop down list is always "define sysex item". This item opens a dialog that defines a new sysex item that will be added to the combo drop down list and will be assigned to a send button if it is one of the first 5 items. A sysex data item consists of fields sysex enter a sysex command F0... F7 in hexadecimal numbers or enter a.syx or.dmp filename, use Browse to select a file. caption enter a caption text for the combo list box item or for a button, use & prefix to declare a key shortcut Alt+(next character) delay enter a delay time in milliseconds that the program must wait after sending this sysex command (default 5000 ms). After entering a complete and correct sysex data item the combo drop down list and up to five send item buttons will be updated and can be used. Currently this dialog can only be used to define new items. Modifying or deleting existing items can only be done by modifying the text file where the definitions are stored. gnmidi.ini contains a setting that tells which file contains the sysex item definitions: [Settings] SendSyxFile=sendsyx.txt The self defined items are added to the combo drop down list and first 5 ones are assigned to buttons in the send sysex area. The text file contains the item descriptions in following form: [SendSyx] Caption=&Identify Sysex=f0 7e f7 Delay=500 [SendSyx] Caption=&Church Sounds Sysex=c:\sounds\sysex\organ.syx Delay=23000 [SendSyx]... [SendSyx]... Hint: gnmidi.log will contain error messages if the sysex item definitions file contains incorrect definitions.

114 111 Send sysex data item from self defined button First 5 valid self defined data items are assigned to 5 reserved buttons in the send sysex area. The caption is displayed on the button. If caption contains an ampersand character & then next character can be used for a key shortcut Alt+(next character) if this shortcut is not used elsewhere in the dialog. e.g. caption &Identify will be displayed as Identify on the button and key combination Alt+I can be used to send this sysex item (if Alt+I key is not used elsewhere in the dialog as shortcut). Send sysex data items from the user defined combo box items All valid self defined sysex items are added to the combo box in the send area. The first item does not send anything, it clears the send sysex edit field. The second item opens the dialog to define a new sysex data item. When opening the drop down combo box list and selecting a sysex data item with left mouse click then this item will be sent to the output device. When selecting combo box list items with arrow keys then the item info will be copied into the send sysex edit box and then this data can be sent from the edit box (send button or Enter/Return key). Receive sysex dumps First choose the input MIDI device that will be used for receiving MIDI data. The small box in the receive sysex dump area should blink, this is a proof that the input device is active (a working MIDI device is sending MIDI clock F8 or activesense FE command steadily!). In order to receive sysex data you either need to start a send sysex dump operation on the MIDI device or send a sysex request command to the device first. Some operations on the MIDI device might automatically send a sysex notification (e.g. change to certain mode). Some MIDI devices send sysex data only when certain option on the device is set. Every caught sysex command will be added to the list in the center, it will be displayed in hexadecimal numbers F0... F7 (longer sysex data will only be displayed partially, but the complete received sysex is still remembered). While the sysex command is not complete it will be displayed... without the F7 at end, when the sysex transfer completes then the... F7 will be added. The current list of sysex messages can be cleared (removes all sysex and resets transfer counters to 0). Individual sysex commands can be selected inside the list by clicking with the mouse on the line. Selected sysex commands can be removed by using clear after selection. Selected sysex commands can be saved to file (.syx or.dmp). Describe sysex commands Select one of the received sysex commands and click on the describe... button. Look into your MIDI device manual to find out what this sysex command means. First 10 hexadecimal values of the received sysex are displayed in the edit field. Only a part of the sysex beginning is necessary to identify the type of command. You can delete unnecessary numbers at end of the sysex or insert more numbers if less or more bytes are significant to identify the meaning. Special characters can be used as wildcards to skip meaningless numbers or numbers that are counters:? this character inside the hexadecimal sysex part will match any byte number [0-7f] # this character inside the hexadecimal sysex part will match any byte number [0-7f] and remembers the byte number of a matching sysex at this position. The number can be added to the sysex description using the # character as placeholder A sysex description text to a matching sysex will be displayed for received sysex as [...] displayed when sending such a sysex added as comment when saving a.dmp file Currently the describe sysex dialog can only be used to define new descriptions. Modifying or deleting existing descriptions can only be done by modifying the sysex description file where the descriptions are stored:

115 operations 112 Following setting in gnmidi.ini tells which file contains the sysex descriptions: [Settings] SysexDescriptionFile=describesyx.txt A stored sysex description in the sysex description file looks like [KORG i30 change to song mode] F E 06 F7 This will display description when this sysex is received as: F E 06 F7 [KORG i30 change to song mode] For longer sysex data it is sufficient to specify beginning of sysex, the character # can be used as place holder of a number information that can be used in the description of sysex, e.g. [KORG i30 style block #] F # will describe sysex F by following line: F [KORG i30 style block 2] Hint: Sysex data in hexadecimal numbers and their meaning can be found in manual of your MIDI device. Read also in manual to your MIDI device how to receive and send sysex dumps. Important notice for sending sysex from file the program waits a certain delay to give the MIDI device enough time to consummate and handle sysex data (default 5 seconds additionally to the transfer time). That is usually enough time to decode and store larger data block but can be too small if sending a series of dump requests where each might deliver much data. If the device has not enough time then it could fail to handle (larger) sysex data properly. The default waiting time between sending sysex commands can be changed with following gnmidi.ini setting: [Settings] SendSyxDelay=15000 (this would set the delay to 15 seconds) Hint: For self defined sysex items you can define the wait time individually for each sysex item Karaoke Editor [in menu Modify] This karaoke editor adds your song text to a MIDI file and is used to synchronize song text syllables to melody notes. Hint: Unregistered demo version (to try this product) allows to synchronize first half of the song only (for testing purpose). Registered program version allows to synchronize whole song. Important: The melody notes must be already available in the MIDI file, without existing melody notes this editor is not useful to synchronize comfortable, use Synchronization editor instead to synchronize song text lines. Start the karaoke editor for the current MIDI document with shortcut key Ctrl-K.

116 113 Choose the melody channel You are asked to enter the melody channel (1-16). delete existing lyrics check this option if existing lyrics should be ignored (that you can start editing from beginning with empty lyrics) add note names to lyrics check this option to add the note names of melody notes as default lyrics (instead of entering a song text) insert beat info optionally add lyrics for counting the beat with the song. This is useful when your song has no song text and needs some indication of beat. It adds synchronized lyrics like following to the song: 127bpm [001] 4/ [005] 4/ [002] 4/ [006] 4/ [003] 4/ [007] 4/ [004] 4/ [008] 4/

117 operations 114 Song text If the song does not contain lyrics yet a dialog is presented where you can enter the full song text. You can copy the song text from clipboard into the edit field (open context menu with right mouse click). It is not necessary to enter the song text here, the song lyrics (syllables) can be entered later direct to the corresponding melody notes. The entered song text will be split into words and assigned to the melody notes word by word. The words can be split into syllables later in the editor simply whenever it is required for assigning word part to a note (the grammar rules for splitting words into syllables don't apply here for this purpose). If you enter text with hyphenation here (e.g. me-lo-dy) then the syllables are assigned to notes (without the - character) instead of the word.

118 115 The Karaoke Editor dialog shows a scrollable table of melody notes and available lyrics: Columns LOCK/UNLOCK (key symbol ) this small column area is used to mark a table row locked (locked when key symbol is displayed). A locked row is protected against moving or modifying. Use this feature when a line is completely synchronized so that it won't be moved away by accident. It is not necessary to lock all lines, add the lock to the last syllable of the line. When adding a line or paragraph row then this row will get the lock automatically. POSITION (beat number.midi unit) this column contains a logical MIDI position for each row, positions cannot be moved, new positions can be entered between existing positions. LYRIC this column contains words or syllables that are currently assigned to a melody note or other position. During editing a row (that is not locked) can be selected and then the lyric column will display an edit field where the lyric text can be entered or modified. «is shown in a table cell to break the song text line at this position. is shown in a table cell to break a paragraph at this position. NOTE This column displays melody notes as coloured bars which display the note name. The horizontal beginning position of the bar gives a visible hint about the note height (it starts more right if note is higher). The bar width gives a hint about the note duration (the wider the more longer the note is played). Hint: Click (with left mouse button) into LOCK column will toggle the locking state. Click into the other columns will select the row and offer an edit field for changing the lyric. Scroll bar Use the scroll bar to show the rows before or after current table page. Use the arrow keys UP, DOWN, PAGEUP, PAGEDOWN scroll the rows manually. Text preview The text currently contained in the page rows is displayed in preview area below, this displays also the line and paragraph breaks, that helps to find out where line or paragraph breaks are still missing. insert pos inserts a new row before current selected row. It suggests a position in the middle of previous and current row position. The position must be specified in beat.unit e.g Use this operation when there are syllables in the song text that should be assigned to a position between two melody notes. append pos inserts a new row between current selected row and next row. Paragraph appends a paragraph end marker to current row text. A paragraph separates melody lines that don't belong to same verse. The row will be locked to prevent it from being moved without intention. Add paragraph when a song text line is correctly synchronized. Line appends a line end marker «to end of current cell text. A line separates two melody sentences that belong to same verse. The row will be locked to prevent it from being moved without intention. Add line when a song text line is correctly synchronized. play/stop starts playing from song position of the top row of this page till stopped by user or end of song. The rows will be highlighted at matching row positions. The playing speed is controlled by option

119 operations 116 normal/slow. The button caption toggles between play and stop depending on the current playing state. Warning: Space key can't be used here to start/stop the player since space key is used to enter the space character into the edit field. Hint: Playing automatically stops when using an edit operation or selecting a row (by click on the row). Hint: Player starts to play directly at the time when the melody note first on the current page begins. You can force the editor to play some time (in milliseconds) earlier before top row note begins with following gnmidi.ini setting: [Settings] KaraokeEditPlayerStartDelay=2000 normal/slow the option defines the playing speed when using the play button. Toggle between normal speed and slow speed. Normal speed will play the MIDI song in original tempo. Slow speed is defined to default 60% of original song tempo. This setting can be changed in gnmidi.ini file: [Settings] KaraokeEditSlowPercent=60 Save This button saves current karaoke song to a temporary MIDI document (opens a document window). Don't forget to use Save or Save As operation in the file menu. The resulting MIDI file will be in format 0 and contain standard MIDI lyrics. Use karaoke conversion or.kar conversion operations to change the lyrics format. Cancel use this button only if you want to abort the editing without saving the modifications. You are asked to confirm this decision. This is useful when you are trying the Karaoke editor functions. Move upward moves the text in current selected row and rows above up one row till an empty row is found. The operation will fail if no previous empty row is currently available till first row. Key F5 can be used for this function. Move downward moves the text in current selected row and rows below down one row till an empty row is found. The operation will fail if no next empty row is currently available till last row. Key F6 can be used for this function. Hint: appends empty rows at end of song so that there will be new space for moving downward when necessary. If there is no free row till next move downward, will try to generate a new free row by merging the last to syllables before next locked row. Split syllables splits a word in current row at cursor position into two syllables. The syllable on the right side will be moved down one row (including text in next rows) till a free row is found. The operation will fail if no next empty row is currently available till last row. Key F7 can be used for this function. Hint: Each time when you split a word into two syllables searches for same words after current position and tries to split it into syllables same way (only possible if not locked and free row available till next locked row). This auto split syllables behavior can be turned off with following gnmidi.ini setting: [Settings] KaraokeEditAutoSplit=0 Merge syllables

120 117 merges the text of current row and next row to one text in current row. The text of next row will then be empty. The selection moves down to the empty row. Key F8 can be used for this function. This function is also necessary when moving text fails, because the function generates empty rows after merging text rows. Editor Modes The Karaoke editor has two modes that can be switched any time by pressing play/stop button: PLAY MODE this mode is used to check if the synchronization is correct by playing from beginning from a song position where top row is located. Define the playing speed with normal/slow button and play/stop the current song part. The rows are highlighted white whenever the song reaches a row position and rows are automatically scrolled into view. EDIT MODE this mode is used to enter or modify lyrics in rows, move rows up or down insert/append new rows, append line or paragraph breaks, split or merge syllables. Select a row to perform a function at this text or position. Enter/modify song text click with left mouse button into a row (columns 2-4) to select the row for editing. An edit box will be displayed in this row inside column 2 that contains the current lyric text. You can enter new text or modify existing text in this edit field. Use arrow keys UP/DOWN to get directly into previous/next row edit box. Hint: While entering text it is not important that words/syllables are already entered into the correct synchronized row. It is easier to synchronize the entered text later where you can split/merge syllables, move lyrics up or down later quicklier. Important: Space characters are shown with a point in the middle of the character, so that the are visible during editing. Spaces between words should be always at end of a syllable. Look into preview text area so that you can see if words are correctly separated by spaces and that no space is in middle of one word that is split into syllables. Hint: Don't enter special formatting (e.g..kar format) instructions except line break «and at end of syllable. The save operation will save in a standard lyrics format that can be converted with later (to.kar or other karaoke formats). Synchronizing song text for synchronizing syllables you need to move the lyric syllable to the row of the corresponding melody note or a self defined position between two melody notes. Notes can't be moved only the text content can be moved up or down into a row that contains the melody note. For moving a row with empty syllable/word must be available in this direction. Locked rows can't be moved, an error message will be displayed when no available free row is found that is necessary for moving. Example for moving text upward (before and after pressing key F5): Example for moving text downward (before and after pressing key F6):

121 operations 118 When no empty row can be found or generated (or a locked row prevents from being moved) then following message will be displayed: No free element found that elements can be moved. Hint: Lock some rows that contain already synchronized text so that this text is not again moved away by accident by a further move operation. Hint: It is not necessary that all melody notes have corresponding syllables, sometimes a syllable is specially interpreted by a series of notes. Rows that don't contain text will be ignored at save. Look also at position information, when two positions are very close then it can be better that only first of these rows contains text and second is left empty. Split words into syllables First select the row that contains the word, move the cursor in the edit field to the position between the two characters that are to split into two syllables. Press F7 to split the current word into two parts. The right half of the word will be moved down into row below. For successful splitting it is necessary that a row with empty content is available somewhere down, so that next row content can be moved down. If no empty row is available then this will be displayed in an error message. Then you should look at rows below and merge some rows so that at least one free row will be generated. It is possible that the MIDI song contains less melody notes than are necessary for synchronizing all verses. In this case it is necessary to delete some verses. Example for splitting a word into syllables (before and after pressing key F7): Hint: Since splitting moves down rows content it is recommended to lock important rows behind current row that are already synchronized. Hint: Since the splitting is only done for synchronizing spoken parts of word to notes you don't need to follow any rules of language grammar here. Split wherever you think that word parts are played by different notes. Hint: After each splitting of a word tries to find identical words behind current position and splits it same way if possible. Merge syllables to a word or sentence select the first row of two adjacent rows that contain text that should be merged into one row content. Press F8 to merge the text of current and next row. Example for merging two rows to a word or sentence (before and after pressing key F8):

122 119 Insert a syllable between two melody notes Usually song text is directly assigned to melody notes, but in certain cases there is no melody note available for a syllable (e.g. the song author made a little mistake and forgot to play a note, or the author uses the pitch bend wheel to play certain parts). Use the insert or append pos buttons to define a new position between the two melody note positions. A new row will be inserted where you can enter the text for this position. Hint: Currently no modify or delete position function is available. Leave the row empty if the position is not useful for the syllable. Empty rows are not saved. Add line breaks or paragraph breaks behind synchronized text lines Each song text lines should be ended with a line break or a paragraph break. Look into the preview text area, if the lines are too large then you should break them directly after last syllable of the sentence. Use line break for lines inside a verse, use paragraph break after last line of a verse. Rows that contain a line break or a paragraph break will automatically be locked with the key symbol. That prevents that the synchronized line might be moved by accident. If the line break was added wrong then unlock this row (click into first column of this row) and delete the «character manually. Hint: Don't use paragraph break and line break «at same position. Hint: Unlock all locked lines at once on your own risk with key F9. Use that only when you want synchronize whole song again from beginning, e.g. if you started with line synchronization editor and now want to synchronize syllables. It is dangerous to unlock synchronized lines, that lines could be moved unwanted to wrong positions. Save a modified karaoke song First exit the dialog with save button. That will create a MIDI document window in your environment. Use Save As operation to save the MIDI file. Hint: The dialog can be resized with help of dialog frame and title bar. Change the fonts: The font names and font sizes used by the karaoke editor can be changed by a setting in file.ini (a text file in your documents folder)

123 operations 120 [Settings] KaraokeEditorFontname=Arial KaraokeEditorFontsize=11 KaraokePreviewFontname=Courier New KaraokePreviewFontsize=10 The preview font is used in the box at bottom side. The editor font is used in the list (syllables and note names). The [Settings] line already exists in.ini, insert the lines that you want to change if not existing Synchronization Editor [in menu Modify] The Synchronization Editor is used to enter song text line and synchronize the song text lines to MIDI or MP3 song positions. Synchronization can be done comfortably during playing the song. Hint: If you plan to synchronize syllables, you should directly use Karaoke Editor. For beginners and for

124 121 applications where text line synchronization is enough the synchronization editor is simpler and quicker to use. Demo limitation In unregistered demo version (which is for testing only) you can only synchronize first half of the song. Registered program version synchronizes all song text lines. Choose a MIDI document window and start the synchronization editor. Shortcut key Ctrl+Z can be used. Warning about synchronized syllables that are probably synchronized If the MIDI file contains song text that is already split into syllables and probably synchronized syllable by syllable then a warning appears. You should abort if you want to keep the syllables and better use karaoke editor to check and modify syllables synchronization. If you continue then the song text will offered for synchronization line by line. Unmodified lines will keep synchronization time of first syllable in this line, you don't need to synchronize them all again if they are already ok. Enter the song text First a dialog is displayed where you must enter the song text. Existing lyrics will be collected from the MIDI file and displayed in the edit box. You can also copy text from clipboard (use right mouse button and choose paste). Next dialog does not contain possibility to enter or modify lyrics, so that must be done in this dialog. All when this setting is chosen all lines will be synchronized. Use this to restart synchronization from beginning. Part when this setting is chosen only lines will be synchronized that are set to recordable (REC). To set lines to state recordable you need to select one or more lines with left mouse button and then click on option range. Lines without times (--:--:---) don't need to be selected, those lines are automatically treated as recordable (REC). Hint: It is important that you first click into lines in the list box and then on the Part check box (even if it is already selected). This will set the selected lines to REC. In part mode the player will start some seconds before the first REC position, so you can easily repeat recording from other positions. Hint: Double click with left mouse button into the list box to unselect all list items at once. Test when this setting is chosen all lines are set to not recordable which prevents from modifying current synchronization during playing. Use this to check synchronization of lines and find out which lines should be synchronized better. Synchronization list box The list box contains song text lines. In front of every synchronized line there is a time position specified in minutes:seconds.milliseconds e.g. 0: Not yet synchronized lines display a --:--:-- in front of the lines. It will be replaced by the time when clicking F5 during synchronization. In front of the lines that are intended to be synchronized at next start (F3) you find word REC (recordable). All other lines don't have this state, so they won't be changed during playing. Lines without time --:--:-- are recordable (except in mode Test). Start (key F3) starts to play the MIDI song from beginning in selected speed and listens on user key input for

125 operations 122 synchronizing next line. Using Start will forget all previous synchronization times from last Start. Time display current playing time will be displayed during playing of the MIDI song, it is not displayed when stopped. Stop (key F3 while playing) stops playing the MIDI song and aborts synchronizing. All synchronized song text lines till now are remembered and can be saved. Use again Start when you want to forget the recent synchronization try and try it again from beginning. While the song is playing you can use key F3 to stop. normal / slow speed select normal or slow speed for playing the MIDI song in original tempo or in a slower tempo (default 60% of the original speed). This setting can be changed in gnmidi.ini file: [Settings] KaraokeEditSlowPercent=60 Synchronize next line (key F5 while song is playing) press the Synchronize button or key F5 every time when the beginning of next line is currently about to be sung. The next line will be selected and the time position will be displayed in the list box, if the next line is recordable (REC) otherwise the user command will be ignored with a warning beep. Undo recent line synchronization (key F6 while song is playing) when key F5 was pressed too early (before the next song text line really starts) then you can correct this when you are quickly. Press Undo button or key F6 to set the synchronization status of previous synchronized line back to --:--:-- (not synchronized yet). At the correct position synchronize this line again with key F5. If recent line is not recordable (REC) then this operation is ignored with a warning beep. Hint: When you pressed key F5 too late then undo doesn't help, you can either accept the wrong position if it was not too late or stop synchronization and restart again from beginning of the song. Use option Range to modify synchronization of some selected lines instead of option All where you need to synchronize all lines again. Save song with synchronized lyrics Save button integrates standard MIDI lyrics at synchronized times into a MIDI file. All lines that are not synchronized will get the time of the last synchronized time. Save only creates a temporary MIDI document, you need to use Save As operation to save the modified song to a MIDI file. In demo only half synchronization of song will be saved, register to be able to save full song synchronization. Results will be saved in standard MIDI lyrics format, use.kar conversion or other lyrics conversion operations to convert the file. Synchronize MP3 song text For playing MP3 song with internal player a working MCI MP3 driver must be installed in Windows system. After synchronizing lyric lines the lyrics are stored in a temporary copy of the original MP3 file. and newest versions of Windows Media player can play MP3 with integrated synchronized lyrics Seek long notes in song The operation searches notes within song that play a note for at least 5 seconds or are incomplete (NOTE ON or NOTE OFF command missing). The result is written to a text file and displayed by notepad editor. This operation useful when think that there are playing notes too long and want to find out the reason.

126 123 c:\mysong.mid: channel 6 note c5 vel 91 started channel 6 note d5 vel 91 started channel 6 note f5 vel 89 started channel 6 note a#5 vel 101 started channel 6 note d#5 vel 102 started at at at at at unit unit unit unit unit plays plays plays plays plays for for for for for duration seconds duration seconds duration seconds duration seconds duration seconds Note start position is displayed in MIDI units. With MIDI calculator you can convert MIDI units to time or beats or measures. The 5 seconds period can be changed with following setting in gnmidi.ini file in your personal My Documents folder: [Settings] LongNoteSeconds= Fit improvisation to a score sheet [in menu Modify] An improvisation is a music piece that is played live without metronome. Example of an improvisation (Mozart): in original scores it was 3/4 The MIDI song does not contain enough information to display the song correct as a score sheet (missing or wrong measures). Minimal tempo differences or playing errors cause unwanted score display, the notes are placed at not intended positions and that makes the score sheet hard to read. This operation does not try to correct errors, instead it uses given measure markers to move these tact markers to correct logical score sheet positions, without changing the playing noticeably. The score display will become better the more measure markers are placed precisely. Example of editing measure markers

127 operations 124 Example of an improvisation that was fit to score sheet with this operation (while the MIDI song still plays identically after the strong modifications!) Format of measure markers Measure markers must be entered into the MIDI file before using this operation. Measure markers are simple text command, which must be inserted at correct position where measures start and which contain only measure meter information: Example 4/4 3/4 1/4 6/8 Hint: The measure information must not contain any characters or other symbols in front of this number format (e.g. T4/4 or 4:4 is not valid). The measure information may contain other text (separated by a space) or line separator behind the text (e.g. 1/4 Measure 1). Only one measure information is allowed per field and position (4/4 3/4 is not valid). Insert measure markers Inserting measure markers works best with karaoke editor, when the song does not contain lyrics yet and when you choose a channel that contains notes which can be used easy to identify a position

128 125 where a measure should start. Simply enter the measure information (e.g. 4/4) at the position where the measure (and often also a note starts). If there is already a karaoke text at same position then it is best to insert a new karaoke text position with same position where you can enter the measure information. Also synchronization editor can be used to enter measure markers, but make sure that you click at time where the measure starts very precise, which often does not work so exact. If the song already contains karaoke text then this text might disturb synchronization of measures. Hint: You need to enter at least two measure markers in a row, that can estimate the measure duration and guess missing measure markers self. Optimal results require inserting all measure markers. When tempo of song changes then additional measure markers are required that knows the new measure duration. Hint: If no or too few measure markers are inserted then a message will be displayed that more measure information is necessary. Hint: tries to modify logical improvised measure length to correct measure length by changing tempo of this measure without changing duration of the improvisation measure MIDI Tempo is limited to a certain value range bpm. Wrong or extreme measure information could lead to extreme cases where a very short part must be extended to a very large part (e.g. played part 1/96 to displayed part 4/4) which could only be reached using a tempo range outside of the valid tempo range, and so in this case must give up. Try to play the improvisation very close to the original or imaginary score sheet and try to place all measure markers exactly. Don't force to fit very short played parts into large displayed measures and reverse. Hint: The first measure and also an incomplete rest of a measure between start of midi song and first measure info is very critical. Also this remaining part must fit into a valid measure, a score sheet does not allow unaligned beginnings. For this area it is recommended to use shorter measure length (e.g. 1/4) to reduce the risk of tempo range overflow. Warning: MIDI file assumes measure info 4/4 for any part before first explicit set meter info! Testing After generating a new MIDI song load this new file into your MIDI sequencer or any software that can display or print score sheets from midi file input. Check if the notes are displayed at correct positions, if you have the original score sheets then compare it with the displayed results. If notes are positioned inexactly within a measure (e.g. notes that should be at beginning of a measure are starting early or late) then try to correct the measure markers for this measure position (move or modify existing measure information or insert a new correct measure marker if it was missing at this position). Hint: does not display score sheet, you need a 3rd party MIDI software that is able to display and print score sheets. Hint: Real playing errors are not corrected with this operation. If two notes should be displayed at same measure position but were played with inexact timing then this error could be visible in score sheet after fitting. Try to play more precise or correct the playing errors with a MIDI sequencer or using ASCII conversion Monophon channels [in menu Modify/Note operations]

129 operations 126 Polyphon channels play more notes at a time. This operation reduces and removes overlapping notes so that each channel plays only single note at a time. Pedal MIDI controllers are removed, since they influence polyphony too. Mono phon melody is used in some applications like phone melodies, search by melody (e.g. parsons code). Hint: Create a MIDI file from a polyphon MIDI song by removing all channels except melody channel and then use this operation to ensure that the melody channel will be monophon Quantise notes [in menu Modify/Note operations] Quantise This operation aligns command positions and note duration at given raster. Quantising is usually used to correct minimal imprecise note starts (which are caused during live playing). Channels This operation can be used with all channels or single channel or some channels at once. Select the channel numbers in the list box. Positions The command positions will be set to closest matching raster position. Raster precision will be specified in score sheet pause units (e.g. 1/64). This is optional and set by default. Durations Note durations will be aligned to an own raster that is given in score sheet note units (e.g. 1/16). Chosen raster size is minimal note duration too. This is optional and off by default. Hint: Pitchbend commands are not aligned. Use only small raster size when a channel uses Pitchbend commands.

130 Compare MIDI files [in menu Analyse] Choose second MIDI file Open dialog is used to choose a second MIDI file. Active MIDI file (in current active window) will be compared against the second MIDI file. Result A text file will be generated and opened as result that contains two columns (one per file) with different MIDI commands. Hint: Comparing could take longer if MIDI files are not very similar (since all differences will be listed in the file). Example: only tempo was changed in a MIDI file FILE c:\midi\deutsch\liebessp.mid FILE C:\Temp\new00170.mid Trk 1 0 Tempo bpm Trk 1 0 Tempo bpm Example: Some text was modified in a file FILE c:\midi\deutsch\liebessp.mid FILE C:\Temp\new00176.mid Trk 3 0 Text type 1 length by Günter Nagler (... Trk 3 0 Text type 1 by Günter Nagler Trk 4 0 Text type 3 length 6 Melody Trk 4 0 Text type 3 length Trk 5 0 Text type 3 length 9 whistling Trk 5 0 Text type 3 length Trk 6 0 Text type 3 length 13 horse running Trk 6 0 Text type 3 length Pferdegalopp 46 7 Melodie 8 Pfeiffen 12 Example: PSR META chords were added to a file FILE c:\midi\deutsch\liebessp.mid FILE C:\Temp\new00178.mid Trk 14 0 Text type 3 length 48 Chords guessed by {} Trk 14 0 Meta type 7F length B Trk 14 0 Meta type 7F length B Trk Meta type 7F length B Trk Meta type 7F length B Trk Meta type 7F length B Trk Meta type 7F length B Trk Meta type 7F length B Trk Meta type 7F length B Trk Meta type 7F length B Trk Meta type 7F length B Trk Meta type 7F length B Trk Meta type 7F length B Trk Meta type 7F length B Trk Meta type 7F length B F 7F F 7F F 7F F 7F F 7F F 7F F 7F F 7F F 7F F 7F F 7F F 7F F 7F

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132 129 Trk Meta type 7F length 7 Trk B F 7F 6144 Meta type 7F length B F 7F Trk Meta type 7F length B Trk Meta type 7F length B Trk Meta type 7F length B Trk Meta type 7F length B Trk Meta type 7F length B Trk Meta type 7F length B Trk Meta type 7F length B Trk Meta type 7F length B Trk Meta type 7F length B Trk Meta type 7F length B Trk Meta type 7F length B Trk Meta type 7F length B Trk Meta type 7F length B Trk Meta type 7F length B Trk Meta type 7F length B Trk Meta type 7F length B Trk EndTrk F 7F F 7F F 7F F 7F F 7F F 7F F 7F F 7F F 7F F 7F F 7F F 7F F 7F F 7F F 7F F 7F Compare all MIDI files [in menu Analyse] This batch operation searches for similar or identical MIDI files in two folders. Source folders Instead of choosing one source and one destination folder (as most other batch operations ask for) you must choose two source folders. The MIDI files within these folders are not modified. Hint: Only this batch operation allows that both folders are identical folder in order to search for similar MIDI files within one folder. In this case both folder path names must be identically, else it will be assumed that they are different folders and that would cause finding many duplicate files. Duration Before comparing starts it will collect MIDI files and some MIDI information from both folders. Then it will compare those MIDI files that have similiar information. The duration for this depends on number of MIDI files in the folder (and sub folders). It could take more time. Result At end it generates a text file and displays it with notepad editor, which contains the list of identical or similar MIDI files. Differences To get the difference in more detail you could compare two MIDI files.

133 operations Rename MIDI files by song titles The first track titles will be read from each MIDI file of selected folder (and sub folders). The title will be modified to be compatible for filename use and a file extension.mid will be added. Danger: The original filenames will be renamed! Only use this function with copies of your original files. Hint: First track title should contain reasonable song title that the generated file names will help to find your MIDI songs within archive. Hint: This operation can not handle unicode characters if used in song title. Character translation: Spaces are replaced against underscores _. Except few special characters from German and French language special characters are replaced against _. Some characters that are not allowed in file names are replaced too. Limit name length for compatibility: modified title will be cut at maximum length 100 characters Rename track names to their MIDI filename The file names (without path and file extension) of all MIDI files in selected folder (and sub folders) will be set as first track titles. Danger: The files will be modified! Only use copies of your original files to work with this operation! Hint: Your file names should contain song name or artist/song name Clone channel [in menu Modify] Clone This operation copies an original channel to a new channel (which should not be free yet) and supports a small delay of the copied MIDI commands. This function will often be used to enhance melody channel by duplication. The delay causes a kind of echo effect. Old Channel Der alte Kanal muss in der Originaldatei existieren und MIDI Befehle enthalten. Falls mehrere

134 131 Spuren diesen Kanal benutzen wird nur aus der Spur mit den meisten Befehlen kopiert. New Channel The new channel should not contain MIDI commands before this operation is used. If all channels are already in use then one less important channel needs to be deleted before. Delay (MIDI units) All copied MIDI commands can be moved by the specified number of MIDI units back (a pause will be inserted at beginning). Standard value 0 does not cause a delay. Negative values move the commands towards beginning of the song (pauses are removed). In this case there should be an existing pause at beginning of original channel which can be reduced Clean MIDI song [in menu Modify/Controller operations] Clean This operation removes unnecessary (unused) MIDI commands before first note plays and removes repeated (identical) commands during note area. Sort MIDI commands during initial area before first note plays (except drum intro notes) are sorted when they are at same MIDI unit. Distribute MIDI commands during initial area before first note plays are distributed by one midi unit and different unit ranges for each channel (if there is enough time till first note available) so that the number of initial MIDI commands that occur at same time are reduced. You might turn off sort completely or partly using following settings in.ini file: [Settings] MidiCleanAllowSort=0 MidiCleanAllowModifyTime=0 MidiCleanAllowDistributeInitTime=0 Hint: Some critical MIDI commands are not moved or removed (e.g. system exclusive, data controller, all controls off, RPN controller). Hint: This operation is only usable for not more than 16 MIDI channels. If your MIDI device supports more than 16 channels and your MIDI song uses them then you should not use this function. Hint: Check if the resulting file sounds identical to your original file.

135 operations Remove chords [in menu Modify] This function removes chords of some common chord formats used in MIDI files: text, lyric, marker chords with following formatting: PSR Meta chords BIAB chords Wordbox sysex chords [Am] (Am) {Am} "Am" %Am DO RE SOL Select one or more chord formats in the list box and then use remove selected chord types or use Remove all chords. Use OK button to remove the selected chords or use cancel to abort this operation. Removing chords might be necessary if you need to add chords in a certain format and the song already contains chords in an other format. Hint: This operation is available as batch operation Convert MIDI to (.csv) speadsheet [in menu Convert] This converter generates a table in format CSV that contains the MIDI content of a MIDI file (for viewing and modifying with external applications like Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Works, OpenOffice.org...). separator: comma (,) or semicolon (;) character set: ASCII special characters: are converted into HTML entities (e.g. &#129; ). Hint: The separator can be defined in.ini file [Settings] CSVColumnSeparator=; Settings: in menu settings you can decide if related NoteOn/NoteOff pairs should be combined to a Note line.

136 133 Hint: Since version 2.56 the.csv table contains new columns: Time (for all commands) and Duration (for Note, NoteOn commands), which present the position and note duration in milliseconds, NoteNumber (for Note, NoteOn, NoteOff commands), which show the MIDI note number corresponding to the note name. Hint: The.csv file can be modified and may be converted back to a MIDI file. Hint: If during modification of the table a value in column will be removed then the conversion to MIDI file will use the value from column Time of same line for the positon calculation. Hint: If during modification of the table a value from a line Note Zeile the value in column Length will be removed then the conversion to MIDI file will use the value from column Duration of this line for the note length length calculation. Hint: If during modification of the table the entry in column NoteName is missing or invalid then the number from column NoteNumber will be used for Note, NoteOn, NoteOff commands Convert (.csv) spreadsheet to MIDI file [in menu Convert] This operation converts tables back to MIDI file that were generated by operation Convert MIDI to (.csv) spreadsheet. The.csv file can be viewed or modified with a spreadsheet application (e.g. Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Works, OpenOffice.org) separator: comma, or semicolon ; character set: ASCII special characters: will be treated as characters from Windows ANSI character set HTML entities: some HTML entities (e.g. &#129; ) are converted back to a special character.

137 operations Map notes to scale [in menu Modify/Note operations] this operation modifies notes from selected channels to match the selected scale key by mapping rules defined in the chosen scale mapping file. Mapping file is a text file with file extension *.mapscale that contains lines in following format: keyname [ notename or notename+increment notename-decrement ] e.g. C-Major [ c dis+1 d dis+1 e f fis+1 g gis+1 a ais+1 bb ] if the chosen scale is not listed or a note is not listed in the line for the scale then the notes are not modified. Scale key major and minor scales that can be chosen for the mapping. Channels lists the channel numbers (1-16) that chould be modified if necessary. By default all channels except GM drum channel 10 are selected ( ). Choose a selection from the dropdown list or enter the numbers of channels separated by spaces e.g or e.g Use a Play list

138 135 [in menu Player] A play list is a text file (*.lst) that contains references to existing songs that should be played in a defined order. supports two play list formats in files with file extension *.lst: simple format: each line contains a path to an MIDI or MP3 song, if the path is relative then it must be relative to the location of the *.lst file that contains this path. This format can be edited with a simple notepad text editor. property format: this format is read and generated by application playlist.exe, each lines contains an entry with attributes file="..." filesize="..." title="..." the title attribute allows to give the entry an alternative title (by default the file name is used). This format will be used if using playlist.exe and changing title attribute for an entry. Create new play list use application playlist.exe to create a new *.lst file, add some songs or all songs from a folder and optionally sort them manually. Save the play list to a folder where you keep your play lists organised. Open a play list choose a play list file with extension *.lst. The application reads the song list and displays errors if the play list contains problems (mostly if referenced songs are not existing). A new document opens that shows the song entries with numbers in a table. The current selected song has blue text color. If any of the songs in the list is currently playing then its name will be displayed with green text. Use the following menu operations to change the selected entry (blue colored): Select previous song in play list (short key ctrl+arrow left) Select next song in play list (short key ctrl+arrow right) Use the following menu operation to play the next selected song (if current selected song was already playing then this song playing will be stopped and next song behind will be selected and played) Play next song in play list (short key shift+space) Chord editor [in menu Modify]

139 operations 136 The chord editor collects the chords of different formats from the current midi file and displays them in a table. One line for each measure and one beat for each quarternote in the measure. It also displays the lyric words or syllables that begin in a measure. The chord names in each beat column can be edited. For editing lyrics use the operation edit words. To edit a chord name double click into a table cell. A dialog appears that shows the position and the chord name. The position can be modified if necessary (normally this is not required). Use the format measure:beat.midiunits (e.g. 11:3.0) where 1:1.0 is the start of the song (first measure, first beat). The chord name can be entered in the edit text field or if syntax is unclear you could enter a part of the chord name and drop down the list box to get all possible chord names that match your input. Select an entry from the list to use this chord. Use ok to confirm the new chord or use cancel to abort the dialog. If a measure has 2/4 and other measures have 4/4 then 4 beat columns will be displayed. For the measure 2/4 only the first 2 beat colums can be used to enter chord. Deleting a chord or? symbol (for undetected chords) can be done by double click the cell and removing the chord name in the text edit box.

140 137 After modifying one or more chord cells use ok button to store the new chords in the format as the original chords had. If the midi song did not contain chords then the chord format lyrics with brackets is used e.g. [Cm] Storing chords in BIAB chord format is not supported. Please use the Band-in-a-box application from PG Music Inc. for modifying BIAB chords Prepare Casio Lightning [in menu Convert] Casio has a keyboard serie LK that has the ability to light melody and bass keys while playing. It also helps learning a song since it lights the key and waits till using it with left and right hands. This operation prepares a MIDI file that the melody and bass notes will be lightening with a Casio LK keyboard. If the melody and bass channel are identical then an unused channel is required that the melody and bass notes can be splitted at middle C note. Melody channel the operation tries to find out the melody channel and might suggest a channel 116. You can change the melody channel with the combo box drop down arrow. Bass channel the operation tries to find out the bass channel and might suggest a channel You can change the bass channel with the combo box drop down arrow. Use Play bass and melody button to play a reduced midi song that contains only the melody and bass given above. Use OK button to start the operation. Use cancel button to abort the operation. Hint: In demo version this operation writes only the beginning of a song. Please purchase a license that you can write the whole songs. Hint: If melody and bass are on same channel this channel must be splitted. For this a free MIDI channel 1-16 is required. If no free channel is available you will get an error message. Delete a channel that is not so important for the playing.

141 operations Edit theme [menu window/themes...] This dialog offers a possibility to choose predefined colors and font for the karaoke view. Such a set of colors and font settings are called a theme. Some standard themes are delivered with the program. This dialog also allows to copy a theme to the user defined themes stored in mygnmidi.ini (in your documents folder) and modify theme according to your favorite taste. Choose a theme The button searches for existing themes (in program folder and in your personal documents folder) and displays a popup menu where you can choose a theme with left mouse button click. Click outside of the popup menu to cancel the menu. The chosen theme name will be displayed in the edit box theme name. A preview of the theme settings will be displayed in the preview section. If the previous loaded theme has been modified or renamed the changes will be stored before loading the selected theme. A standard theme has icon [STD] and a user defined theme has icon [USER]. A user defined theme can be renamed and modified. Theme name The edit box contains the name of current selected theme. For user themes the name can be renamed in this box. Standard theme names can not be renamed. Copy the theme to a user theme to be able to modify or rename the theme. Copy to user themes Standard themes can not be modified. This button copies the current loaded theme into file mygnmidi.theme in your personal documents folder. It will automatically get a name beginning with my. The name can be renamed inside the theme name edit box. This button is disabled if the theme is already a user theme in mygnmidi.theme Choose font Select a new font that is used for drawing the text. Standardcolors theme uses the last used karaoke font and does not change the font self.